Key West, Florida
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The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
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Key West, Florida
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.
Key West, Florida
This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.
Key West, Florida
An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.
Orlando, Florida
Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.
Savannah, Georgia
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.
Smithfield, Virginia
The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
Granite, Oklahoma
Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.
Cache, Oklahoma
This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.
Lawton, Oklahoma
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Mansfield, Ohio
Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.
Grampian, Pennsylvania
Rocky outcrops containing overhangs, caves, fissures, clefts, and alcoves that invite exploration and scrambling.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.