Places Edited by gardnermcelroy

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

Behind legendary Meltdown Comics is a marker for an engineered musical roadway of the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Kcymaerxthaere.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.