San Francisco, California
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.
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San Francisco, California
Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Los Angeles, California
This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
San Francisco, California
Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
Phoenix, Arizona
A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
New York, New York
The "Seinfeld" diner.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Brooklyn, New York
Ride the subways of yesteryear.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
Chicago, Illinois
A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.