Palo Alto, California
Birthplace of Silicon Valley
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
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Palo Alto, California
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Salisbury, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.
Windber, Pennsylvania
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Baltimore, Maryland
This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.
Baltimore, Maryland
A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
San Francisco, California
Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.
San Francisco, California
This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.
San Francisco, California
Inside an old airplane hangar, friends and strangers alike play on a massive trampoline.
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.
San Francisco, California
Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.
San Francisco, California
Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.