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Jerome, Arizona

Gold King Mine Ghost Town

Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

Jerome, Arizona

Nellie Bly Kaleidoscopes

A kaleidoscope gallery and steampunk emporium named for a pioneering journalist.

Jerome's Sliding Jail

Jerome, Arizona

Jerome's Sliding Jail

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

History of Humanity

Felicity, California

Felicity, California: Center of the World

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

Yuma Territorial Prison

Yuma, Arizona

Yuma Territorial Prison

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Entrance to East Jesus

Calipatria, California

Slab City

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Salvation Mountain

Calipatria, California

Salvation Mountain

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Bombay Beach, California. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bombay Beach, California

Bombay Beach

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Salton Sea History Museum
Permanently Closed

Mecca, California

Salton Sea History Museum

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Pretty nice for an infrastructure accident!

Mecca, California

Salton Sea

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Galleta Meadows Estate

Borrego Springs, California

Galleta Meadows Estate

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Torrey pine grove on Santa Rosa Island.

Santa Barbara County, California

Torrey Pines of Santa Rosa Island

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

A winter monarch cluster roosting in a eucalyptus tree at Pismo Beach.

Pismo Beach, California

Monarch Butterfly Grove

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

San Simeon, California

Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Rookery

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

William Randolph Hearst's private castle.

San Simeon, California

Hearst Castle

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Morro Rock

Morro Bay, California

Morro Rock

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Exterior view of the Vehicle Assembly Building.

Titusville, Florida

NASA Vehicle Assembly Building

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The Apollo 1 crew jokingly showing their faith in the craft.

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launch Complex 34

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry
Permanently Closed

Graniteville, Vermont

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Mount Mansfield

Stowe, Vermont

Mount Mansfield

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

Trapp Family Lodge

Stowe, Vermont

Trapp Family Lodge

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Nansen Ski Jump

Milan, New Hampshire

Nansen Ski Jump

This site was once the largest ski jump tower in the world.

R.M.S. Empress of Ireland Memorial

Rimouski, Québec

R.M.S. Empress of Ireland Memorial and Mass Grave

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.

Le Grand Rassemblement

Sainte-Flavie, Québec

‘Le Grand Rassemblement’ (The Grand Gathering)

An ever-changing gathering of crude wooden figures haunts the St. Lawrence River.

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