New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Turtle Mound
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
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New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.
Wailea-Makena, Hawaii
A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.
Amherst, New Hampshire
A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.
New Harmony, Indiana
This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Underneath downtown Lincoln resides a network of caves that was also the city's first brewery.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Ithaca, New York
This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.
Aquinnah, Massachusetts
Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.
New York, New York
This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.
Miami, Florida
In memory of the 110 victims of ValuJet Flight 592 that crashed in the Everglades.
South Bend, Indiana
This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.
Chicago, Illinois
This historic-shipwreck-cum-diving-spot can still be seen poking its boiler out of the Lake Michigan waters that claimed it.
Lawton, Oklahoma
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
New Haven, Connecticut
The headquarters of the famous Yale society.
St. Louis, Missouri
One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.
Ardmore, South Dakota
Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.
Moab, Utah
It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.
Washington, D.C.
For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.
Cleveland, Ohio
Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.
Inverness, California
This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.
Bushland, Texas
The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.
Tallassee, Tennessee
Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.