Corinne, Utah
The Spiral Jetty
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
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Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Palmyra, New York
A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Quemado, New Mexico
In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
New York, New York
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Spring Green, Wisconsin
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
Inyo County, California
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Britt, Iowa
Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.
Wellesley Island, New York
This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Exeter, New Hampshire
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Antonito, Colorado
Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
New Mexico
One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.
Elsah, Illinois
First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Ocotillo, California
A UFO scrapyard in the California desert.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.