Kerry, Ireland
Gallarus Oratory
This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.
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Kerry, Ireland
This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.
Las Vegas, Nevada
An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.
Portland, Oregon
Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."
Seattle, Washington
An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.
Santa Claus, Indiana
You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.
London, England
In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.
London, England
Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
London, England
The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.
Las Vegas, Nevada
One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Savannah, Georgia
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.
Jacksonville, Florida
This ancient octopus-like tree was saved from destruction thanks to shady reporting.
Birmingham, Alabama
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.