San Diego, California
Harper's Topiary Garden
A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.
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San Diego, California
A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
San Francisco, California
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
St. Augustine, Florida
Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”
Genoa, Colorado
See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.
Quakertown, Pennsylvania
The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.
Ashford, Washington
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
Cave City, Kentucky
One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Pearl River, Louisiana
Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Lithia Springs, Georgia
The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.
La Grande, Oregon
A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
North Bend, Washington
This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.
Ames, Iowa
Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
New York, New York
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.
San Antonio, Texas
The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.