Bisbee, Arizona
Erie Street, Historic Lowell
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
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Bisbee, Arizona
A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.
New York, New York
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
Portland, Oregon
Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.
Shullsburg, Wisconsin
A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.
Topeka, Kansas
These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.
Glenn Dale, Maryland
An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.
Pinellas Park, Florida
The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.
Ireland
This Copper beech tree nestled on a nature reserve is host to a bevy of autographs from Irish literary icons.
Providence, Rhode Island
The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.
Providence, Rhode Island
An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Providence, Rhode Island
The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.
Providence, Rhode Island
To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.
Providence, Rhode Island
An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.
Providence, Rhode Island
A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.
Providence, Rhode Island
This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.
Providence, Rhode Island
Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.
Providence, Rhode Island
Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
Vintondale, Pennsylvania
The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.
St. Ignace, Michigan
Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.
Shoreham, New York
An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Bluff City, Tennessee
A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.
Sister Bay, Wisconsin
Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.