Lehi, Utah
Museum of Ancient Life
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
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Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
Columbia, South Carolina
This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.
Columbia, South Carolina
This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.
Charleston, South Carolina
Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.
Charleston, South Carolina
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Erwin, Tennessee
Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.
Metropolis, Illinois
You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Hesperia, California
The last Americana on Route 66.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
San Juan Capistrano, California
Oldest building in California still in use.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Laredo, Texas
The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.
Ceballos, Mexico
A US military accident created the legends behind this Mexican version of the Bermuda Triangle.
Guanajuato, Mexico
Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.