Austin, Texas
Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata
DIY collection of eclectic holdings.
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Austin, Texas
DIY collection of eclectic holdings.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Duxbury, Massachusetts
It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Cahuita, Costa Rica
Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.
Jacksonville, Florida
This collection features more than 240 antiquarian maps from around the world, in addition to historical views and plates focusing on North Florida.
Jacksonville, Florida
A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.
Jacksonville, Florida
After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.
St. Augustine, Florida
These ruins are all that remain of what a Spanish barrack that likely housed a quarry overseer, masons, and stone cutters involved in the construction of the Castillo de San Marco.
St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Rosemount, Minnesota
The remains of a World War II munitions factory still haunt the fields of this Twin Cities suburb.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Kanab, Utah
This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.
San Bernardino County, California
This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Peach Springs, Arizona
In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.
Panamint, California
The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.
Yucca, Arizona
This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.
Peach Springs, Arizona
One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
San Bernardino County, California
A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.
Rachel, Nevada
This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.