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This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This small museum is dedicated to one of the most influential, yet obscure, jazz legends of Prohibition.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

A mysteriously dark cemetery monument fuels stories and legends galore.

This museum is a full-size replica of an original church constructed during the 13th-century.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

This lighthouse has been guiding shipping into the Golden Gate since before the American Civil War.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

An abandoned car and strange wooden debris are among the scattered remains of the old sand and gravel quarry.

This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A monument to a one-legged kidnapper, horse thief, and charlatan asks visitors to throw rocks in a pile.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This strange sculpture of a menacing skull surrounded by sun rays was discovered at the foot of the Pyramid of the Sun.