St. Louis, Missouri
Cotton Belt Freight Depot
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
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St. Louis, Missouri
An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.
Corning, New York
Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.
Queens, New York
A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.
Atlanta, Georgia
The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.
Orrville, Alabama
This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.
Carrabelle, Florida
The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Fairbanks, Alaska
One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Los Angeles, California
Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.
Pensacola, Florida
The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lake Placid, Florida
Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.
St. Louis, Missouri
The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.
Bemidji, Minnesota
These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.
Joplin, Missouri
A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.
Sandy, Utah
Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.
Jersey City, New Jersey
This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.
Decatur, Georgia
A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.
Eureka, Missouri
This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.
Bruce Crossing, Michigan
A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.
Chicago, Illinois
To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.
La Habra Heights, California
About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.
Walla Walla, Washington
"Enter and be entertained or annoyed by Dada in Walla Walla."