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View from the hilltop.

Brooks, Kentucky

Valley of the Drums

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

The tree surgeon buried in a tree. (Atlas Obscura)

Carthage, Arkansas

Tree Surgeon Buried in a Tree

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Josephine Tussaud Wax Museum

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Singer Castle

Chippewa Bay, New York

Singer Castle

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

Cool mural on the building

Cave City, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Visitors Center in front, dwelling in back

Auburn, Kentucky

South Union Shaker Village

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

The Thomas Hughes Library in Historic Rugby.

Rugby, Tennessee

Rugby Colony

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Tent graves.

Sparta, Tennessee

Tent Graves of Mt. Gilead Cemetery

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

Byrd Theatre

Richmond, Virginia

Byrd Theatre

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

Evergreen Cemetery

Richmond, Virginia

Evergreen Cemetery

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market

Greenwood, Mississippi

Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Buck Atom

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Buck Atom

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Shreveport Water Works Museum

Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport Water Works Museum

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

An example of a sheet of LSD.

Wamego, Kansas

Wamego LSD Missile Silo

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

The Rock

Michamvi, Tanzania

The Rock

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Jones' Bar-B-Q Diner

Marianna, Arkansas

Jones Bar-B-Q Diner

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.

SS United States
Permanently Closed

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

SS United States

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

Painting of Point Breeze Estate by Charles B. Lawrence

Bordentown, New Jersey

Point Breeze Estate

A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.

Old Barracks

Trenton, New Jersey

Old Barracks Museum

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

First Peanut Museum in the U.S.

Waverly, Virginia

First Peanut Museum in the U.S.

A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.

The Arch

Ajo, Arizona

Arch Canyon Trail

A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.

Jamil's Steakhouse

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jamil's Steakhouse

The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.

Bain Waterworks Plant

Raleigh, North Carolina

Bain Waterworks Plant

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

The Arlington Hotel

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The Arlington Hotel

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

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