Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis Gong Chamber
Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?
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Memphis, Tennessee
Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?
Amiens, France
Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
La Habra Heights, California
About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.
St. Augustine, Florida
Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Nashville, Tennessee
When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.
Brooklyn, New York
Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.
Goldfield, Nevada
Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.
Melbourne, Australia
An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.
New York, New York
More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Magelang, Indonesia
This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.
New Iberia, Louisiana
A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.
Improvement District No. 24, Alberta
The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.
Washington, D.C.
There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.
District of Columbia
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.
Tolochenaz, Switzerland
The immortal Hollywood star rests in peace in an unassuming Swiss village cemetery.
Ithaca, New York
A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.
Romulus, New York
Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.