New Orleans, Louisiana
Séance Room at Muriel's Jackson Square
The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.
Denver, Colorado
Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.
North Bend, Washington
Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Xilitla, Mexico
Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Doganella di Ninfa, Italy
Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.
Johns Island, South Carolina
One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Galway, Ireland
The world of the ancient Celtic civilization explained through a bewitching 11 acre garden.
Stamford, Connecticut
An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.
Mono County, California
This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Los Angeles, California
A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.
North Miami Beach, Florida
St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.
Chicago, Illinois
Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Paris, France
Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Atlanta, Georgia
The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.
Paris, France
A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.