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J.W. Ocker

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J.W. Ocker is the author of macabre travelogues, A SEASON WITH THE WITCH, POE-LAND, and the GRIMPENDIUMS. He's also the creator of the website OTIS: Odd Things I've Seen. He has written about his travels for the Boston Globe, CNN, The Guardian, and other places people stick writing. He lives in New Hampshire.
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Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Vizcaya: north view of Villa from the Italian Renaissance gardens. (Wikimedia Commons)

Miami, Florida

Vizcaya Museum and Gardens

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge

Salem, New Hampshire

Mystery Hill: America's Stonehenge

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Boston Liberty Tree

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Liberty Tree

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Boston's First Street

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston's First Street

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

Gold markers pay tribute to participants of Boston Tea Party

Boston, Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Faneuil Hall

Boston, Massachusetts

Faneuil Hall

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Root cellar

Rutland, Massachusetts

Rutland Prison Camp

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

William McKinley Assassination Plaque

Buffalo, New York

William McKinley Assassination Plaque

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

Alexander Hamilton Death Rock

Weehawken, New Jersey

Weehawken Dueling Grounds

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Joseph Palmer's grave

Leominster, Massachusetts

Grave of Joseph Palmer

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Diquís Spheres

Costa Rica

Diquís Spheres

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

The mailbox, with lots of graffiti from visitors.

Alamo, Nevada

The Black Mailbox

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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Permanently Closed

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Robot Hall of Fame

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The gorgeous formations at Valley of Fire State Park.

Clark County, Nevada

Valley of Fire

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Devils Golf Course Landscape

Inyo County, California

Devils Golf Course Landscape

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns. (matthigh/Flickr)

Death Valley, California

Wildrose Charcoal Kilns

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Badwater Basin

Inyo County, California

Badwater Basin

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Rhyolite's District of Shadows

Beatty, Nevada

'Rhyolite's District of Shadows'

A land of debatable treasure.

A limo atop an ice cream truck.

Goldfield, Nevada

International Car Forest of the Last Church

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The Little A'Le'Inn

Alamo, Nevada

Little A'Le'Inn

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

Old Tonopah Cemetery

Tonopah, Nevada

Old Tonopah Cemetery

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Clown Motel

Tonopah, Nevada

Clown Motel

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Petrified Wood

Holbrook, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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