San Bernardino, California
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
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San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Kapa'a, Hawaii
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
Duchesne County, Utah
The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.
Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Lacey Township, New Jersey
A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.
Alpena, Michigan
This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.
Moran, Wyoming
Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.
Cohasset, Massachusetts
New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
New York, New York
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
Long Beach, California
The creator of the carousel's bingo-pinball hybrid survives in California's oldest gaming establishment.
Washington, D.C.
A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Chicago, Illinois
Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.
Landers, California
Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.
Rochester, New York
An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.
Essex, Illinois
Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.
Ogema, Wisconsin
The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.
Los Angeles, California
Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.