Rutland, Vermont
Wilson Castle
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
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Rutland, Vermont
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
Middleton, Wisconsin
More than 5,000 contemporary and "historic" mustards from around the world.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Washington, D.C.
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Atlanta, Georgia
Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Titusville, Florida
A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Traverse City, Michigan
Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.
Hebron, Connecticut
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.
Berkeley, California
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Seattle, Washington
This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.
Pacifica, California
The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Buford, Wyoming
One of the smallest towns in the United States.
San Francisco, California
The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.
Yakutat, Alaska
Gorgeous cave resemble a winter wonderland.
Vineland, New Jersey
This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.
Oakland, California
The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.
New York, New York
An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.
Woodbury, Connecticut
A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.
Louisville, Kentucky
This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.
Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.