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Grave of Corinne Elliot Lawton

Savannah, Georgia

Grave of Corinne Elliot Lawton

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Swetsville Zoo
Permanently Closed

Fort Collins, Colorado

Swetsville Zoo

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

Updated sign - previous version was ‘Geological Marker’ which was an incorrect term.

Athens, Wisconsin

45 X 90 Geographical Marker

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

View of the ghost town

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Buffalo Ridge 1880 Cowboy Town

This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.

Welk's simple childhood home.

Strasburg, North Dakota

Lawrence Welk's Birthplace

The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.

From a distance, the unfinished Cementland's ambitions to be a castle-like amusement park are obvious.
Permanently Closed

St. Louis, Missouri

Cementland

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Close-up of Mary Nasson's image on her grave

York, Maine

York Witch Grave

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Current state of the refurbished Wentworth by the Sea

New Castle, New Hampshire

Wentworth by the Sea

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Quotes and fates.

Danvers, Massachusetts

Salem Village Witchcraft Victims Memorial

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Artist's signature

Saugus, Massachusetts

Skull Cliff

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

A plaque marks the location of this unique tree

Indianapolis, Indiana

Indianapolis Moon Tree

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

Mooresville's Gravity Hill
Permanently Closed

Mooresville, Indiana

Mooresville's Gravity Hill

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

Wattle Hollow Retreat
Permanently Closed

West Fork, Arkansas

Wattle Hollow Retreat

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

At the top of the pages you can see the hand-illuminated details.

St. Joseph, Minnesota

The Saint John's Bible

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

(Design Boom)

Macao

Ash Jesus and Ash Buddha

Sculptures of religious figures made from the ashes of pilgrims' incense.

Riga Central Market

Riga, Latvia

Riga Central Market

3,000 market stands in five former Zeppelin hangars.

Memorial Marker, Oct 2018

Hampton, New Hampshire

Eunice "Goody" Cole Memorial Stone

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

Mount Olive Cemetery

Atlanta, Georgia

Mount Olive Cemetery

This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta's first Black communities.

Masonic Temple of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Masonic Temple of Philadelphia

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The Avrocar

Dayton, Ohio

The Avrocar

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Lackawanna Coal Mine

Scranton, Pennsylvania

Lackawanna Coal Mine

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Three levels of shopping stacked on top of one another, built above the world's largest underground aquarium, and centered around a full-blown indoor amusement park.

Bloomington, Minnesota

The Mall of America

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The coelostat seen with the dome open. Photo from Palomar Observatory blog.

Pasadena, California

Hale Solar Laboratory

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

A full scale fossil skeleton.

Ogden, Utah

Eccles Dinosaur Park

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

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