Goleta, California
Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station
This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.
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Goleta, California
This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.
San Francisco, California
Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.
Bronx, New York
Despite not growing anywhere near New York City, bananas are ripened in a pressurized room in the Bronx using precise banana science.
Keene Valley, New York
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
Monticello, Illinois
The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.
Florence, Alabama
The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.
Hatteras, North Carolina
The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
Parshall, North Dakota
One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.
Los Angeles, California
Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.
Huntington Beach, California
This monster board rode a monster wave to break two world records.
Seattle, Washington
A 1,000 pound brass bell commemorates a time when this small maritime neighborhood was actually its own separate city.
Hana, Hawaii
The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.
Sausalito, California
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
Tryon, North Carolina
The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.
Dayton, Ohio
A headstone tells the sad story of a lost little boy and his pet dog.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.
Prattsville, New York
Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.
Bellerose, New York
The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.
New York, New York
The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.
Washington, D.C.
The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.
Richmond, Virginia
The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.