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Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Built in 1899, this luxurious home was part of one of the first gated communities in Los Angeles.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

A pyramid commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.