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Phoenix Trotting Park
Permanently Closed

Goodyear, Arizona

Phoenix Trotting Park

This abandoned horse racing track was an exercise in hubris from its inception.

Mystery Castle

Phoenix, Arizona

Mystery Castle

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Governor Hunt's pyramid tomb.

Phoenix, Arizona

Governor Hunt's Pyramid Tomb

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Yavapai County, Arizona

Montezuma Castle

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The Bird Cage Theater

Tombstone, Arizona

The Bird Cage Theater

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Mission Control Room at JPL

La CaƱada Flintridge, California

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

August 2019

Flagstaff, Arizona

Twin Arrows Trading Post Ruins

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

8-17-21

Winslow, Arizona

Apache Death Cave

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

Palace of Fine Arts

San Francisco, California

Palace of Fine Arts

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

MusƩe MƩcanique

San Francisco, California

MusƩe MƩcanique

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

One of San Francisco's Victorian mansions has a trippy surprise inside.

San Francisco, California

Institute of Illegal Images

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Sir John Soane's Museum

London, England

Sir John Soane's Museum

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Lake Shore Inn

California City, California

Lake Shore Inn

Abandoned hotel with adjacent lake and golf course.

Natural History Museum of London

London, England

Natural History Museum of London

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Devil's Gate

La CaƱada Flintridge, California

Devil's Gate

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Malibu Hindu Temple

Calabasas, California

Malibu Hindu Temple

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

The Witch's House in 2012

Beverly Hills, California

Spadena House

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

Highgate Cemetery

London, England

Highgate Cemetery

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Behind the bar at Tiki Ti.

Los Angeles, California

Tiki-Ti

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

George Air Force Base. (Benedict Siegel/Atlas Obscura)

Victorville, California

George Air Force Base

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Nobrow Comics can now only be found online.
Permanently Closed

London, England

Nobrow Comics

A comic book store that puts the marvel back in marvellous.

The long view of Cooper's Row

London, England

London Wall

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The Dominator Shipwreck

Palos Verdes Estates, California

The Dominator Shipwreck

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

Mysterious skeleton carving in the cave.

Chislehurst, England

Chislehurst Caves

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

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