Alamo, Nevada
The Black Mailbox
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
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Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Odessa, Texas
A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.
Boulder City, Nevada
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Inverness, California
The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.
Asheville, North Carolina
This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.
Santa Rosa, California
A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
Alamo, Nevada
If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.
San Diego County, California
The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Asheville, North Carolina
The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
San Francisco, California
A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.
Washington, D.C.
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
Elberta, Alabama
Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.
San Francisco, California
Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.
Washington, D.C.
The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.