Asheville, North Carolina
Folk Art Center
A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.
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Asheville, North Carolina
A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.
Asheville, North Carolina
This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.
Asheville, North Carolina
The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.
Cashiers, North Carolina
This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.
Johns Creek, Georgia
The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.
Pamplin, Virginia
One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.
Guyana
The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.
Delta, Utah
A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Portland, Oregon
Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.
San Diego, California
This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.
New York, New York
This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
New York, New York
Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Venezuela
This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.
Akron, Ohio
But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?
Samarra, Iraq
9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.
San Antonio, Texas
This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.