Rapid City, South Dakota
Thunderhead Underground Falls
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Seattle, Washington
A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Orlando, Florida
Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.
Houston, Texas
An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.
Bloomington, Indiana
A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.
Marco Island, Florida
An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
New York, New York
Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.
Boston, Massachusetts
This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.
Illinois
A sandstone corridor so narrow that it feels like the wilderness closing in on itself.
Larkspur, Colorado
In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.
Wabash, Indiana
Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.
Lorman, Mississippi
Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.
Vidal Junction, California
This extraordinary project brings water from the Colorado River to Southern California.
Chicago, Illinois
The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.
Corpus Christi, Texas
The oldest United States federal cemetery west of the Mississippi River.
Arlington, Virginia
Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.
Amsterdam, New York
Hilltop modernist/folk art shrine and gardens dedicated to a Native American saint.
Cataldo, Idaho
A nearly 200-year-old Catholic mission built to serve the native people of Idaho.
California
An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.