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A burial ground of rusting metal grave markers.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Origin of the blue-skinned Fugates of eastern Kentucky.

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Art deco landmark on the outskirts of Washington, D.C.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.