Los Angeles, California
Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum
A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
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Los Angeles, California
A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
New York, New York
A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
New York, New York
The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Los Angeles, California
A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Los Angeles, California
Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.
Chicago, Illinois
A monument to the art of slicing people open.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
Portland, Oregon
Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Key Biscayne, Florida
An underwater city for the dead.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
New York, New York
More gold than anywhere else, ever.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.
Chicago, Illinois
A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.