Atlantic City, New Jersey
Chicken Bone Beach
Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Once forgotten, this strip of sand was a rare beachside haven for Black Americans in Atlantic City.
Atlanta, Georgia
Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.
Kanab, Utah
This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
West Mercur, Utah
This creepy, abandoned cemetery is all that remains of a once booming mining town.
Wamego, Kansas
A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.
Marietta, Georgia
An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.
Greenville, South Carolina
This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Rayne, Louisiana
The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Llano, Texas
This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.
Holbrook, Arizona
This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
Tempe, Arizona
A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.
Ehrenberg, Arizona
The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.
Los Angeles, California
A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.