Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia Ghost Town Church
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
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Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Boston, Massachusetts
Radical Bookstore and Community Space.
Los Angeles, California
Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Phoenix, Arizona
In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.
Washington, D.C.
This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Port Austin, Michigan
Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Dublin, Ohio
The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.
San Antonio, Texas
The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.
Washington, D.C.
A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.
Ames, Iowa
Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.
Denver, Colorado
One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Orem, Utah
An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.