Queens, New York
The Ganesh Temple of Queens
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
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Queens, New York
This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.
Dawson, Pennsylvania
A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.
Clear Lake, Iowa
A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Long Beach, Washington
Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.
Cartersville, Georgia
These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.
Washington, D.C.
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
Reno, Nevada
This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Cameron, North Carolina
The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.
Austin, Texas
This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Independence, Missouri
A museum celebrating the Victorian obsession with hair art.
Madison, Wisconsin
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.
Boston, Massachusetts
The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.
Spokane, Washington
Local legend has it that an old, decaying staircase outside this cemetery is haunted by dozens of ghosts.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Princeton, New Jersey
One man's lifelong obsession with death.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Yucca, Arizona
This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.