Sparta, Tennessee
Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
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Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Nageezi, New Mexico
A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Queens, New York
Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.
San Jose, California
San Francisco Bay's ghost town.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
New York, New York
An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Friday Harbor, Washington
This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.
Ludlow, California
One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Silverado, California
The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
New York, New York
One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.
Montezuma, New Mexico
A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.
Key Largo, Florida
Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.