Kansas City, Missouri
The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures
The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.
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Kansas City, Missouri
The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Athens, Georgia
A white oak with property rights.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
Sandyston, New Jersey
Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.
Ouray, Colorado
A recreation of an Old West apothecary full of curios.
Pepeekeo, Hawaii
These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.
Boston, Massachusetts
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
San Francisco, California
A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.
Ione, California
One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.
Culver, Oregon
Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.
Munfordville, Kentucky
A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.
Cañon City, Colorado
This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
Austin, Pennsylvania
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Abita Springs, Louisiana
A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
Los Angeles, California
This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.