Aristes, Pennsylvania
Centralia
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
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Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hundreds of protractors affixed to surfaces all over the city.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Ansted, West Virginia
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Alderson, West Virginia
This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
Staunton, Virginia
The only recreation of William Shakespeare's indoor playhouse.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
West Bend, Iowa
A four story, football field-sized, nine-grotto creation made of shells, minerals, and rare stones.
Monowi, Nebraska
America's smallest town is run by its single citizen/mayor/librarian/bartender.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.
Garretson, South Dakota
The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.
Vermillion, South Dakota
One of the world's most definitive collections of musical instruments, spanning all cultures and historical periods.
West Des Moines, Iowa
A small burial plot formerly stranded in the middle of a road.
Sac City, Iowa
Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.
Audubon, Iowa
The World's Largest Bull.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.