Cape Charles, Virginia
Kiptopeke's Concrete Fleet
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
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Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Georgia
This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.
Paisley, Florida
Deep in the Ocala National Forest, a lonesome 19th-century grave.
Antarctica
This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.
Inaccessible Island
It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.
Tristan da Cunha
The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.
Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Antarctica
At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands
The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.
Port Costa, California
A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
Ajo, Arizona
This oasis-like spring in the Sonoran Desert is home to unique, endangered species.
Adams, Massachusetts
The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.
Woodstock, Vermont
An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Florence, South Carolina
"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.
Hartsville, South Carolina
The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.
North Atlantic Ocean
The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.