Hilo, Hawaii
Kaumana Lava Tubes
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
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Hilo, Hawaii
Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Bellaire, Ohio
There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.
Ironton, Missouri
In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
Austin, Minnesota
Ever wanted to can Spam?
Pensacola Beach, Florida
One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.
Leavenworth, Washington
The site of the Wellington avalanche, one of the America's worst railroad disasters.
Hebron, Connecticut
The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.
Millvale, Pennsylvania
An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.
Casper, Wyoming
Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.
Tucson, Arizona
This southwestern historic site was designed and built by an artist who wanted his work to "feel at home."
New York, New York
A collection of fanzines, recordings, and documents detailing the rise and influence of the feminist punk movement.
Jerusalem Township, Ohio
Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.
Chanhassen, Minnesota
Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Nashville, Tennessee
The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."
Inyo County, California
Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.