St. Louis, Missouri
Laclede's Landing Wax Museum
A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.
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St. Louis, Missouri
A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.
Columbia, Missouri
The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Port Orange, Florida
Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.
Seattle, Washington
This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.
Lyndeborough, New Hampshire
Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.
New York, New York
Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.
Somerville, Massachusetts
This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.
Jacksonville, Florida
This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.
Washington, D.C.
A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.
LaCrosse, Washington
An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Waterbury, Connecticut
A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.
Yucca Valley, California
A meditative space out of a fantasy story.
New York, New York
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
Joplin, Missouri
A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.
St. Louis, Missouri
This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.
Kansas City, Missouri
Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.
Bonne Terre, Missouri
A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.
Fredericktown, Missouri
These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.