Pioneertown, California
Pappy and Harriet's Pioneertown Palace
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
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Pioneertown, California
A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.
Twentynine Palms, California
An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.
Joshua Tree, California
The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."
Reykjavik, Iceland
The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.
Iceland
If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.
Raufarhöfn, Iceland
This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.
Hólmavík, Iceland
Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.
Boston, Massachusetts
The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.
Norway, Maine
This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.
Monson, Maine
The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Brownville, Maine
The remains of a large iron mill that once stood in the remote woods of northern Maine.
Millinocket, Maine
This nature mural exists to protect the surrounding environment and its own canvas from destruction.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Rome, Italy
2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.
Elberton, Georgia
A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.
Cherry Log, Georgia
An impressive collection is dedicated to the legendary beast.
Woodstock, Maine
A giant telephone commemorates the last "crank" call ever made in the U.S.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.