New Orleans, Louisiana
Museum of Death
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Yermo, California
A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.
Salina, Utah
Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.
San Diego, California
These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Oatman, Arizona
This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.
Tombstone, Arizona
An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Winslow, Arizona
This memorial includes fragments from one of the greatest tragedies in United States history.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Alamo, Nevada
This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.