Indianapolis, Indiana
The Ruins
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
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Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.
Denver, Colorado
This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Denver, Colorado
Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Isleta Village Proper, New Mexico
This centuries-old pueblo church houses the body of a Franciscan friar who is said to be a rare "incorruptible" corpse.
Freeport, Maine
This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Oakley, Kansas
A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.
Providence, Rhode Island
An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.
Boston, Massachusetts
The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Boulder, Colorado
This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
New York, New York
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."