Manhattan Beach, California
Light Gate
The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.
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Manhattan Beach, California
The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.
Los Angeles, California
This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.
Tacoma, Washington
This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma's historic Beaux-Arts train station is now a federal courthouse featuring large-scale glass sculptures by artist Dale Chihuly.
Tacoma, Washington
This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.
Tacoma, Washington
Sharing the often-overlooked story of America's Black soldiers.
Charleston, Missouri
This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."
Carbondale, Illinois
In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.
Makanda, Illinois
This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Metropolis, Illinois
You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.
Cave-In-Rock, Illinois
River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.
Calvert City, Kentucky
A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.
Paducah, Kentucky
A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.
Marion, Kentucky
Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.
Smithland, Kentucky
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Prague, Czechia
Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
Prague, Czechia
This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.
Prague, Czechia
The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.
Prague, Czechia
This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.
Prague, Czechia
Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.