Saint James, Missouri
Vacuum Cleaner Museum and Factory Outlet
Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.
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Saint James, Missouri
Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
St. Petersburg, Florida
A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Earlimart, California
A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.
Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.
Lutcher, Louisiana
A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.
Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.
Knoxville, Tennessee
This video store is a horror buff's dream.
Tampa, Florida
A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.
Bristol, Florida
A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.
Pinellas Park, Florida
The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Põlva Parish, Estonia
Hundreds of small crosses have been carved into the bark of the trees outside this small Estonian village.
San Francisco, California
This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Portland, Oregon
The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.