Fountain City, Indiana
Levi Coffin House
This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.
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Fountain City, Indiana
This unassuming home was once “grand central station” for the Underground Railroad.
Crawfordsville, Indiana
The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
La Junta, Colorado
The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Lake Nebagamon, Wisconsin
Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Seattle, Washington
A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.
Elsah, Illinois
First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Pleasantville, Pennsylvania
The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Poland
A mysterious structure left behind on the Polish mountainside, sometimes called "Hitler's Stonehenge".
Cleveland, Ohio
A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Where the oil industry began.
Alexandria, Virginia
America's first federal monument.