Chicago, Illinois
Couch Tomb
No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.
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Chicago, Illinois
No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)
Marion, Ohio
This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.
Chicago, Illinois
Assemble a masterpiece at the first and only North American school exclusively dedicated to mosaic art.
St. Joseph, Missouri
The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.
Santa Clarita, California
The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.
Islamorada, Florida
This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.
Memphis, Tennessee
The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Providence, Rhode Island
A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.
San Francisco, California
Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.
Portland, Oregon
No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.
Lucerne Valley, California
A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.
Brooklyn, New York
Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.
Essex, Illinois
Moving, mind-blowing metal sculpture work of an outsider artist.
Nashville, Tennessee
One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.
Brooklyn, New York
A hidden architectural treasure in New York's Brooklyn.
Ransom Canyon, Texas
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
Nashua, New Hampshire
Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.
Brooklyn, New York
I fought the law and the precinct caved in.
Cleveland, South Carolina
According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.