St. Joseph, Missouri
The Pony Express National Historic Trail and Museum
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
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St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.
Alameda, California
One of the best absinthe distilleries in the United States.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Alexandria, Virginia
America's first federal monument.
Casper, Wyoming
A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Palmyra, Syria
Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.
Tokyo, Japan
Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!
New York, New York
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Niagara Falls, New York
Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.
Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba
The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.
Gimli, Manitoba
Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.
West Sacramento, California
I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Sacramento, California
An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Prypiat, Ukraine
This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.
Brooklyn, New York
Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.