Brooks, Kentucky
Valley of the Drums
This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.
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Brooks, Kentucky
This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.
Carthage, Arkansas
Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.
Chippewa Bay, New York
This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.
Cave City, Kentucky
Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.
Auburn, Kentucky
The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Sparta, Tennessee
These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.
Richmond, Virginia
This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.
Richmond, Virginia
This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.
Greenwood, Mississippi
A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.
Shreveport, Louisiana
One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.
Wamego, Kansas
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.
Michamvi, Tanzania
Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.
Marianna, Arkansas
One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Bordentown, New Jersey
A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.
Trenton, New Jersey
One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.
Waverly, Virginia
A museum in the heart of Virginia peanut country devoted to the humble goober.
Ajo, Arizona
A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The storied steakhouse is the last in a long line of Lebanese-owned supper clubs in Tulsa.
Raleigh, North Carolina
Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.