Mineral Wells, Texas
Mineral Wells Fossil Park
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
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Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Headquarters of the legendary clairvoyant's readings, spiritual hospital, and massage school.
Interlaken, New York
The final resting place for the famed creator and narrator of "The Twilight Zone."
Tionesta, Pennsylvania
For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.
Buffalo, New York
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Devon Island, Nunavut
The closest thing to Mars on Earth.
Rivière-Koksoak, Québec
A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.
Chippewa Bay, New York
This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.
Thorold, Ontario
Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.
Hilliard, Ohio
A retro walk through the history of the tube.
Bay Village, Ohio
The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.
Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.
Beacon, New York
The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Washington, D.C.
The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.
Alexandria, Virginia
Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.
Alexandria, Virginia
This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Baltimore, Maryland
A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.