Birmingham, Alabama
Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
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Birmingham, Alabama
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
Los Angeles, California
An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania
A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
An ever-evolving wall of graffiti art off East Liberty Street.
Richmond, California
An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.
Molson, Washington
This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.
Rye, New Hampshire
Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.
McCloud, California
This lesser known Hearst estate is a fairytale village built from the stolen bones of historic European buildings.
Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.
Port Royal, Virginia
The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.
Hayward, Wisconsin
Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
San Francisco, California
One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.
Jordan, Minnesota
This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.
Ocracoke, North Carolina
A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.
Richmond, California
A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.
Davidson, North Carolina
The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.
Topeka, Kansas
A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.
Coalinga, California
A dwindling menagerie of anthropomorphic oil derrick animals still dot the barren California landscape.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.