Orchard Park, New York
Eternal Flame Falls at Chestnut Ridge County Park
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
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Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Rock, West Virginia
This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Littleton, North Carolina
Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
New York, New York
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Claiborne County, Mississippi
An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Madrid, Iowa
A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.
Chicago, Illinois
This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.