Natchez, Mississippi
Grave of Florence Irene Ford
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
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Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Brooklyn, New York
The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.
El Segundo, California
Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.
San Francisco, California
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
Olanta, South Carolina
This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.
Key Biscayne, Florida
It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Ithaca, New York
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
Alexandria, Indiana
Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.
Freeport, Maine
When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.
Alpena, Michigan
This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.
Great Falls, Montana
"Polynesia on the Plains."
Littleton, Colorado
The final resting place of a 19th-century gold prospector and convicted cannibal.
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
Lacey Township, New Jersey
A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.
Antelope, Oregon
Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.
Los Angeles, California
A free library to stumble across, one of many placed worldwide if you know where to look.
Sacramento, California
The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.
Queens, New York
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.
Blairsville, Georgia
Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Los Angeles, California
Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.
St. Helena Island, South Carolina
The remains of a chapel created for convenience.