Norristown, Pennsylvania
American Treasure Tour
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
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Norristown, Pennsylvania
Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.
Seattle, Washington
This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Chicago, Illinois
All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.
Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia
This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.
Medfield, Massachusetts
Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.
Beverly Hills, California
Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.
Indianapolis, Indiana
Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.
Evanston, Illinois
Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Salem, Massachusetts
The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.
Portland, Oregon
Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Winslow, Arizona
The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.
White, Georgia
One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.
Chicago, Illinois
The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.
Naples, Florida
A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.