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.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Inyo County, California
An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.
Sylacauga, Alabama
A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.
Burlington, Kentucky
Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.
Morehead, Kentucky
Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.
Smithland, Kentucky
An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Bahamas
One of the deepest blue holes in the world.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Negril, Jamaica
Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.
Port Royal, Jamaica
Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
Del Monte Forest, California
Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Chitina, Alaska
The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.
London, England
A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.
New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
Lutcher, Louisiana
A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.
Belle Rose, Louisiana
This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.