Guadalupe, California
Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
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Guadalupe, California
Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.
Lowell, Massachusetts
The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.
Cambria, California
A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Berkeley, California
A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.
Chicago, Illinois
This museum celebrating the almighty dollar lets visitors literally stand in the shadow of a million bucks.
Whittier, Alaska
This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Escondido, California
This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
Afton, Virginia
A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
San Francisco, California
A monument to the love people have for their pets.
Bodfish, California
One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.
Albany, California
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
San Francisco, California
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
McArthur, Ohio
The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
West Liberty, Ohio
These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.
New York, New York
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.