Chicago, Illinois
Ida Crown Natatorium
An eccentric park and pool.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Chicago, Illinois
An eccentric park and pool.
Los Angeles, California
Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.
Alliance, Ohio
A record-size collection of wild-haired troll dolls tells the story of the mythical creature's roots in Scandinavian folklore.
Santa Monica, California
A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.
Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Brooklyn, New York
A working metal shop and venue for outrageous art and music shows in a former cannonball factory.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Lyndhurst, Ohio
Annual Easter display made up of thousands of hand-painted eggs.
Fountain City, Wisconsin
A curious sculpture garden and museum in Cochrane, Wisconsin.
Palmyra, Tennessee
Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.
Wellesley Island, New York
This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.
Palatine, Illinois
Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.
Tucson, Arizona
A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.
Boston, Massachusetts
Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.
Evansville, Indiana
The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.
Niagara Falls, New York
Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.
Parksville, New York
This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Danville, Vermont
Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Normal, Illinois
This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.