Denio, Nevada
Royal Peacock Black Fire Opal Mine
Mine your own precious stones.
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Denio, Nevada
Mine your own precious stones.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.
Faber, Virginia
Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.
Springfield, Missouri
An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Ocala, Florida
Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Brevard, North Carolina
This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.
North St Paul, Minnesota
Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.
Pueblo, Colorado
A mental health hospital dating back more than 139 years, now features a museum.
Glen Ellen, California
The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.
Washington, D.C.
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
New York, New York
The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.
Birmingham, Alabama
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
Estes Park, Colorado
An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
Sarasota, Florida
The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Seattle, Washington
One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.
Denver, Colorado
A small store filled with animal skulls and other curiosities.
East Granby, Connecticut
A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.