Gilroy, California
Gilroy Gardens
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
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Gilroy, California
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
Glendora, California
The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Radford, Virginia
Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.
Nelson, Nevada
A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.
San Francisco, California
Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.
Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire
Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
Port Angeles, Washington
Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.
Seattle, Washington
A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.
Chesterton, Indiana
The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
Mechanicsville, Virginia
The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Columbus, Ohio
The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Felton, California
This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.
Newton, Massachusetts
A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.
Denver, Colorado
Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.