Altoona, Pennsylvania
Horseshoe Curve
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Places I've been
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Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Cape Canaveral, Florida
This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.
Katy, Texas
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Pensacola, Florida
A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.
Carrabelle, Florida
This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.
Carrabelle, Florida
Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.
Richmond, Virginia
This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.
Atlantic Beach, South Carolina
This town at the north edge of Myrtle Beach holds a wealth of Black history.
North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
This historic home of the shag is keeping a Southern dance tradition going strong.
Salem, Massachusetts
A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.
Salem, Massachusetts
Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Bar Harbor, Maine
These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Deer Isle, Maine
Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.