Burnsville, North Carolina
Mount Mitchell
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
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Burnsville, North Carolina
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
Lincolnshire, Illinois
This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.
Stewartstown, Pennsylvania
The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.
Mooresville, Indiana
This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Berkeley, California
A private home built to resemble the shape of a microscopic creature.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
Winslow, Arizona
This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.
San Francisco, California
San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.
Naalehu, Hawaii
A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Marshall, California
Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.
Glendale, California
Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.
Antonito, Colorado
Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.
Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Austin, Pennsylvania
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Pine, Arizona
The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.
Sausalito, California
A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.