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A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

The largest single-building tribal cultural center in the U.S. is an expansive museum in Oklahoma City.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.