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Pope Lick Trestle Bridge

Louisville, Kentucky

Pope Lick Trestle Bridge

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

The Gas Station

Bastrop, Texas

The Gas Station

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Abandoned statues on the garden grounds

Glendale, California

Rockhaven Sanitarium

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

Model of a partial dinosaur skeleton.

Laurel, Maryland

Laurel Dinosaur Park

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Mac-O-Chee Castle

West Liberty, Ohio

Piatt Castles

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

Today, the defunct facility evokes both grandeur and squalor.

Waterford, Connecticut

Seaside Sanatorium

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

An aerial view of Serpent Mound in the fall.

Peebles, Ohio

The Great Serpent Mound

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Eartha. Europe Africa Asia

Yarmouth, Maine

Eartha

The world's largest rotating world.

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Pottawattamie Squirrel Cage Jail

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

Lucy the Elephant

Margate City, New Jersey

Lucy the Elephant

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Peanut smiling at passerby

Plains, Georgia

Jimmy Carter Smiling Peanut

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The remains of Old Newgate Prison

East Granby, Connecticut

Old Newgate Prison

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

Turtle Playground.

St. Louis, Missouri

Turtle Playground

This is not your typical jungle gym.

26 Exeter Street

Boston, Massachusetts

First Spiritualist Temple

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The Choo Choo sign at night

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Galleta Meadows Estate

Borrego Springs, California

Galleta Meadows Estate

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Green Animals Topiary Garden

Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Green Animals Topiary Garden

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Rockmen Guardians

Rockford, Illinois

Rockmen Guardians

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

Mazzariello Labyrinth

Oakland, California

Mazzariello Labyrinth

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

The Peace Fountain

New York, New York

The Peace Fountain at Cathedral of St. John the Divine

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

Dumbo off in the distance

Iron Township, Missouri

Elephant Rocks State Park

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

In the summer, the pond's shores are lush.

Concord, Massachusetts

Walden Pond

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Monks Mound at Cahokia

Collinsville, Illinois

Cahokia Mounds

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Mission San Jose

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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