Alpine, Texas
Sul Ross Desk
A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.
Places questermark Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Estacada, Oregon
Original Stash Tribute Plaque
A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.
San Francisco, California
Western Terminus of the Lincoln Highway
The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.
San Francisco, California
Albino Redwood
Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.
Permanently Closed
San Francisco, California
Defenestration
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
Stern of the Niantic
The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
Site of the Niantic
Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.
San Francisco, California
Lotta's Fountain
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
The Old Ship Saloon
A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.
San Francisco, California
Urbano Sundial
A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.
Cougar, Washington
Ape Canyon
This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.
Brookings, Oregon
Nobuo Fujita's Sword
As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.
San Jose, California
The San José Semaphore
It took years to decode its mysterious messages.
Permanently Closed
Jackson, Mississippi
The Mississippi River Basin Model
Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.
Bangor, Maine
International Cryptozoology Museum
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Luray, Virginia
The Great Stalacpipe Organ
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
San Diego, California
Louie Mattar’s Fabulous Car
One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.
West, Texas
Czech Stop & Little Czech Bakery
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Glen Rose, Texas
Dinosaur Valley State Park
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Glass Bathrooms of Sulphur Springs
Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.
Royse City, Texas
Royse City Futuro House
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Dallas, Texas
Texas Theatre
This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.
Denton, Texas
Goatman's Bridge
A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.
Permanently Closed
Richardson, Texas
Texas Triffid Ranch
"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."
