Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water Gardens
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
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Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Kyoto, Japan
The 10,000 Torii shrine.
Duluth, Minnesota
This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.
Duluth, Minnesota
A spooky defunct railroad tunnel now part of a sprawling trail.
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Grand Marais, Minnesota
Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.
Crescent City, California
This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.
Wind Point, Wisconsin
One of the oldest and tallest lighthouses still in service on Lake Michigan.
Woodruff, Wisconsin
In 1953, a group of Wisconsin high school students helped build a hospital by collecting over a million pennies.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
Sacramento, California
Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.
Monterey, California
Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.
Monterey, California
Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.
Monterey, California
One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.