Thurmont, Maryland
Lawyer's Farm
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
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Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Olympia, Washington
Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.
Redmond, Oregon
Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.
Inyo County, California
Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.
Marshall, California
Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.
Antonito, Colorado
Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."
Versailles, Kentucky
This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Staten Island, New York
Once America's longest-manned military fort, now an abandoned hulk.
Winnetka, Illinois
Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."
Los Angeles, California
Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.
Buena Vista, Colorado
At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.
Florence, South Carolina
"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.
Flemington, New Jersey
One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Aspen, Colorado
“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
San Francisco, California
Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.
Moffat, Colorado
Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
Silver City, Georgia
The remains of one of America's first radiation testing grounds still rest ominously in a Georgia forest.