Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Westinghouse Atom Smasher
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Irwin, Pennsylvania
This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Toronto, Ontario
This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.
Dover, New Hampshire
Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.
West Bridgewater, Massachusetts
This solitary stone engraved with a poem from 1852 has a mysterious and tragic past.
Easton, Massachusetts
A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.
Crystal River, Florida
This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.
Bangor, Maine
This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.
Westford, Massachusetts
This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.
Austin, Texas
At this Austin dive bar, it's been Christmas every day for more than 50 years.
Keystone, South Dakota
This towering wooden Sasquatch was carved with a chainsaw.
Rome, Italy
Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.
New York, New York
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
Boston, Massachusetts
Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.
Glocester, Rhode Island
A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.
Tampa, Florida
A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.
Bradenton, Florida
These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.
Ormond Beach, Florida
The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Christmas, Florida
Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.
Estero, Florida
Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.
Saint Albans City, Vermont
Nobody's quite sure who erected this monument marking the spot where a gray wolf was shot and killed.