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Thunderhead Underground Falls
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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.

Belfry Oddities
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Seattle, Washington

Belfry Oddities

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

A partial view of the Davis Monthan Air Force Base via GoogleEarth.
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Tucson, Arizona

309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Ha'iku Stairs
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Kaneohe, Hawaii

Ha'iku Stairs

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A handsome specimen.
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Orlando, Florida

Carmine Oddities Boutique

Human skulls and a stuffed goat made into a rocking chair can be found at this strange little store.

The Absinthe Museum
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New Orleans, Louisiana

The Absinthe Museum

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Vintage mortician's makeup kit.
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Houston, Texas

The Wilde Collection

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

The sheer walls and striking blue water of the Empire Quarry have dazzled visitors for decades.
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Bloomington, Indiana

Empire Quarry

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

Cape Romano Dome House
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Marco Island, Florida

Cape Romano Dome House

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry
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Graniteville, Vermont

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

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.

Audra Kunkle mounts some specimens in a workspace above the store.
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San Francisco, California

Loved to Death

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Obscura Antiques and Oddities
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New York, New York

Obscura Antiques and Oddities

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Warren Anatomical Museum
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Boston, Massachusetts

Warren Anatomical Museum

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

One Horse Gap in the Shawnee National Forest.

Illinois

One Horse Gap

A sandstone corridor so narrow that it feels like the wilderness closing in on itself.

Old Palmer Lake Cemetery

Larkspur, Colorado

Old Palmer Lake Cemetery

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Slocum/Maconaquah

Wabash, Indiana

The Slocum Cemetery

Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.

Daniell and Freeland family cemetery sitting on one of the Windsor Mounds

Lorman, Mississippi

Windsor Mounds

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

View from Interstate 10 of Julian Hinds Pumping Plant on the aqueduct

Vidal Junction, California

Colorado River Aqueduct

This extraordinary project brings water from the Colorado River to Southern California.

Medieval Torture Museum

Chicago, Illinois

Medieval Torture Museum

The largest interactive exhibition in the U.S. exploring human history through the lens of power, punishment, and psychology.

Graves

Corpus Christi, Texas

Old Bayview Cemetery

The oldest United States federal cemetery west of the Mississippi River.

Old Ball Family Burial Ground

Arlington, Virginia

Old Ball Family Burial Ground

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

Pieta and Open Chapel, Shrine at Auriesville, NY

Amsterdam, New York

National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs

Hilltop modernist/folk art shrine and gardens dedicated to a Native American saint.

Old Mission State Park

Cataldo, Idaho

Old Mission State Park

A nearly 200-year-old Catholic mission built to serve the native people of Idaho.

Looking downstream through the water gap in the Salt Creek Hills.

California

Salt Creek and the Salt Creek Hills

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.

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