Toronto, Ontario
RMS Empress of Ireland Monument
The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
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Toronto, Ontario
The Salvation Army's monument to those who lost their lives in a 1914 shipwreck near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Toronto, Ontario
A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.
Toronto, Ontario
A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.
Barboursville, West Virginia
This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Paranormal activity on the great lakes.
Dearborn, Michigan
Little did a museum know, they possessed the last-known lunch wagon in existence.
Dearborn, Michigan
The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.
Dearborn, Michigan
A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.
Dearborn, Michigan
One of the few working locomotive roundhouses in the United States.
Gary, Indiana
This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.
Mears, Michigan
An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.
Glen Arbor Township, Michigan
This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.
Sutton, West Virginia
A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.
Sutton, West Virginia
In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.
Marion, Virginia
An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.