Orlando, Florida
Discovery Island
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
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Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Near Lake Arrowhead, California
Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Peninsula, Ohio
Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.
Venice, Italy
100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.
Castrillo de Murcia, Spain
During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.
Nara, Japan
Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.
Deniliquin, Australia
The world's largest gathering of flatbed coupes can be found annually at this rural festival in New South Wales.
Chios, Greece
Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.
Estes Park, Colorado
An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.
Rayne, Louisiana
The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.
Bellefontaine, Ohio
In this relatively flat state the highest point is an honored place.
Lilly, Pennsylvania
This sanitorium-turned-asylum-turned-prison is now abandoned and a hotspot for enjoyers of the paranormal.
Rayne, Louisiana
The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
One of the world's oldest continually operating bookstores.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Explore nearly 200 years of guitar-making history
Berryville, Virginia
A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.
Blacksburg, Virginia
Bronze frogs link the town’s hidden waterways with the people who shaped it.
Bluefield, West Virginia
A once-abandoned school building converted into a fantastical multi-level art installation and haven for Appalachian artists.
Tallahassee, Florida
The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.
Tallahassee, Florida
One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.
Perry, Georgia
Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.