Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Whydah Pirate Museum
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
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Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Ponderosa, New Mexico
On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.
Houston, Texas
The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.
Hubertus, Wisconsin
According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.
New York, New York
This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.
Island Park, Idaho
A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.
Vantage, Washington
An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.
Inyo County, California
An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Grantsville, Utah
A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Williamsburg, Virginia
This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.
Ransom Canyon, Texas
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
San Francisco, California
A library built during San Francisco's pioneer times is a student's retreat, bibliophile's sanctuary, and chess player's delight.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.
Chimayo, New Mexico
This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.
Chicago, Illinois
The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.