Calipatria, California
Slab City
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
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Calipatria, California
This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.
Calipatria, California
Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.
Calipatria, California
Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Houck, Arizona
This abandoned bootleg attraction was built to cash in on the popularity of classic TV show, F Troop.
Alma, Arkansas
Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Memphis, Tennessee
Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.
Memphis, Tennessee
Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Nashville, Tennessee
The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.
Weatherford, Oklahoma
This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.
Los Angeles, California
Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.
Los Angeles, California
Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.
Atlanta, Georgia
This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.
Atlanta, Georgia
An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.
Atlanta, Georgia
Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Atlanta, Georgia
Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
Jefferson, Virginia
Hop on the train and tour an elaborate miniature town made completely of junk (including the train).