Beech Mountain, North Carolina
Land of Oz Theme Park
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
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Beech Mountain, North Carolina
A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.
Cameron, West Virginia
The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Lake Helen, Florida
Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Black Mountain, North Carolina
Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Kayenta, Arizona
Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.
Lake Wales, Florida
A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.
Aspen, Colorado
Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."
Madison, Wisconsin
"Looks so real, it's scary!"
Hildebran, North Carolina
An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.
Boston, Massachusetts
Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.
Seattle, Washington
This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.
Boston, Massachusetts
Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.
Washington, D.C.
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Kane, Utah
This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.