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This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

Stock up on all your horror paraphernalia at this year-round Halloween emporium.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

On October 26, 1963, a 12-kiloton nuclear device was detonated here in granite some 1,211 feet below the ground surface.

This rest area is also home to a remarkable petroglyph site.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Despite the name, it's unclear if this small depression in northern Nye County was actually caused by falling space debris.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.