Venice, Italy
Isola di San Michele
Venice's island of the dead.
Places I've been
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Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Savannah, Georgia
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.
Augusta, Georgia
Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.
College Station, Texas
Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.
San Marcos, Texas
In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Fort Worth, Texas
The world's second-longest burning light bulb.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Monterey, California
This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.
Del Monte Forest, California
Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.
Monterey, California
The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.
Santa Cruz, California
A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.
Pescadero, California
A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Gilroy, California
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.