New Orleans, Louisiana
Metairie Cemetery
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Laguna Beach, California
This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.
New York, New York
A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Chipley, Florida
A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.
California City, California
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Queens, New York
The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.
Randsburg, California
This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.
Port Angeles, Washington
Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
New York, New York
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
Boston, Massachusetts
Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.
Mono County, California
Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.