Austin, Texas
Mayfield Park
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
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Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Pyramid home to an obscure religious group that practices modern mummification.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
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."
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Turks and Caicos Islands
The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.
Long Bay Hills, Turks and Caicos Islands
A sinkhole known simply as "The Hole."
Providenciales and West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands
A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.
Key Largo, Florida
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
South Bay, Florida
One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.
Sarasota, Florida
A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.
Tampa, Florida
Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.
Chicago, Illinois
A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.
Stowe, Vermont
This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.
Detroit, Michigan
Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Detroit, Michigan
These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.
Natchez, Mississippi
This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.