Sloan, Nevada
Seven Magic Mountains
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
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Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Savannah, Georgia
This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.
Williston, Florida
This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Littlefield, Arizona
An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.
San Francisco, California
The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.
Los Angeles, California
One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Seattle, Washington
Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.
La Cañada Flintridge, California
An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
Nye County, Nevada
A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Florence, Colorado
This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Mono County, California
Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.
New York, New York
Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.