North, Arkansas
Cosmic Cavern
The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.
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North, Arkansas
The warmest cave in the Ozarks features two seemingly bottomless lakes.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
St. Louis, Missouri
A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
The world's largest man-made underground caverns offer unparalleled underwater wonders.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Huntington Beach, California
This midcentury LA bar was the birthplace of tiki culture.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.
Tokyo, Japan
If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.
Pine, Arizona
The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.
Phoenix, Arizona
The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Seattle, Washington
Always a new use for this old building.
Seattle, Washington
Craft liquors concocted in an old Seattle warehouse.
Seattle, Washington
Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.
Seattle, Washington
Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.