Beatty, Nevada
Rhyolite Ghost Town
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
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Beatty, Nevada
Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.
Amargosa Valley, Nevada
This enormous fiberglass cow near Death Valley National Park once graced a casino roof in Las Vegas.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
Twentynine Palms, California
This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.
North Adams, Massachusetts
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Woodstock, New York
Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.
Pawleys Island, South Carolina
Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.
Poughkeepsie, New York
This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.
Evergreen, Colorado
The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Alamosa County, Colorado
A short but powerful waterfall resides amid Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes.
Alamosa, Colorado
When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Thousands of artifacts relating to human sexuality, including the world's largest sex bike.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Townsend, Tennessee
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.