Charlottesville, Virginia
The Raven Room
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
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Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Kansas City, Missouri
Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Lorain, Ohio
A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.
Vejle, Denmark
This unique architectural wonder is home to luxury apartments.
Red Hook, New York
A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.
Washington, D.C.
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Tokyo, Japan
Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.
Spijkenisse, Netherlands
This unique sculpture proved invaluable when it saved a train from careening off the tracks.
Orlando, Florida
Get up close to an F-4 Phantom flown in the Vietnam War at this Florida park.
Rushton, England
An intriguing three-sided folly is a testament to one man's devotion to Catholicism and the number three.
England
A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.
Sanford, Florida
This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.
Xilitla, Mexico
This dreamlike museum is filled with the works of an influential surrealist artist whose name you may have never heard.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Shakaria, Jordan
A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.
Film City, Qatar
A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.
Qatar
Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.
Ashalim, Israel
Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.