Oakland, California
Bay Bridge Troll
A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.
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Oakland, California
A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.
Victorville, California
Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.
Tyler, Texas
A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.
Dade City, Florida
VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
New Orleans, Louisiana
It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.
Greensboro, North Carolina
This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.
St. Augustine, Florida
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.
New York, New York
This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.
Boston, Massachusetts
The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Louisville, Kentucky
The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Berkeley, California
An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Crater Lake, Oregon
A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.
Walker County, Georgia
The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.
Queens, New York
Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.