Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Old Gibson Guitar Factory
The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
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Kalamazoo, Michigan
The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.
Orange, Texas
Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.
Astoria, Oregon
The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.
Boonton Township, New Jersey
This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.
Chester, New Jersey
A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.
Highland, New York
The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
New Haven, Connecticut
The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.
Hartford, Connecticut
A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.
Hartford, Connecticut
An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.
East Granby, Connecticut
A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Dover Plains, New York
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.
Woodbury, Connecticut
A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Leominster, Massachusetts
This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.
Ansted, West Virginia
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Spencer, West Virginia
A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Charleston, West Virginia
This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.
West Liberty, Ohio
These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."