Chimayo, New Mexico
El Santuario de Chimayo
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
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Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.
Inverness, California
This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.
Sausalito, California
A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.
San Francisco, California
Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.
San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Nashville, Tennessee
At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.
Clayhole, Kentucky
Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.
Chester, Illinois
The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.
St. Louis, Missouri
Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.
Virginia City, Montana
An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.
Lane County, Oregon
While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.
John Day, Oregon
This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.
Mitchell, Oregon
Make it an offering.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.
Los Angeles, California
Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.