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Looking out from the Pogue's Run tunnel. (Photo: Stuart Hyatt)Looking out from the Pogue's Run tunnel. (Photo: Stuart Hyatt)
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Indianapolis, Indiana

Pogue's Run

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

Ellijay Mushrooms Farm

Ellijay, Georgia

Ellijay Mushrooms Farm

This hillside mushroom farm shares land with a Buddhist monastery.

The Emerald Path.

Cooksburg, Pennsylvania

Paved Trail

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Six Mile Creek

Ithaca, New York

Six Mile Creek

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Nancy Thompson's House from A Nightmare on Elm Street

Los Angeles, California

Thompson Home

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

Lipstick, flowers

Los Angeles, California

Marilyn Monroe's Crypt

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Linda Vista Hospital

Los Angeles, California

Linda Vista Hospital

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

The fig tree.

San Diego, California

Balboa Park Moreton Bay Fig Tree

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

American Sign Museum

Cincinnati, Ohio

American Sign Museum

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

View from Route 160 up Black Mountain

Partridge, Kentucky

Black Mountain

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

Wooldridge Monuments and their thousand-yard stare

Mayfield, Kentucky

The Strange Procession Which Never Moves

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The coincidences of the boats' proportions are just too incredible

Columbia, Missouri

BoatHenge

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

Bachman-Wilson House

Bentonville, Arkansas

Bachman-Wilson House

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

I Yam What I Yam

Alma, Arkansas

Popeye Statue

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

The Emergency Ark

Port Austin, Michigan

The Emergency Ark

Artist Scott Hocking took a dilapidated 1890s barn to create his massive "Barnboat."

A sad sight for car collectors everywhere

Bowling Green, Kentucky

National Corvette Museum Sinkhole

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Polo's Taqueria

Tucson, Arizona

Polo's Taqueria

Some of Arizona's best spit-roasted tacos al pastor can be found here.

Tunnel with steps cut into a cliff face.

Chesterfield, England

The Caves of Nottingham

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

One of the darkened tunnels.

Breezewood, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Hellam Township
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Hellam, Pennsylvania

Hellam Township

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

An exploded gas line.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Museum of Material Failures

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

The Knoxville Incline above the coal road.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Keeling Coal Road

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

The Church Brew Works

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Church Brew Works

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A few walls are still standing at the base of the chimney. The mine ceased operations in May, 1945.
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Millfield, Ohio

Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine No. 6

The site of the worst mining disaster in Ohio's history.

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