Huntsville, Alabama
Dead Children's Playground
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
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Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Huntsville, Alabama
Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.
Huntsville, Alabama
This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Woodville, Alabama
This massive cave is a sight to behold.
Warrior, Alabama
In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Baker, California
Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Newberry Springs, California
The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Barstow, California
The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Inyo County, California
The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."
Smartsville, California
Once the largest town in eastern Yuba County now sits abandoned.
Ocotillo, California
This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".
Yuma, Arizona
Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Fortuna Foothills, Arizona
An assortment of armored tanks and Howitzer cannons in the middle of the Sonoran Desert.
Ajo, Arizona
A strenuous, unofficial trail leads to spectacular views in one of America's most remote national monuments.
Sells, Arizona
The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.