Duluth, Minnesota
Glensheen Historic Estate
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
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Duluth, Minnesota
This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.
Uravan, Colorado
Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.
Newark, Ohio
One of the most popular brands of glass among collectors, the story of the A.H. Heisey & Company glassmaker is told in this Newark museum.
Aline, Oklahoma
The only remaining sod house Oklahoma built by a homesteader in 1894.
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Portland, Oregon
This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Beckley, West Virginia
A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Killeany, Ireland
A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.
Wichita, Kansas
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Nowata, Oklahoma
To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.
Indianola, Mississippi
A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.
Blenheim, South Carolina
Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.
Leadore, Idaho
These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
One extremely determined man's homemade universe.
Santa Barbara County, California
Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Quinter, Kansas
These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.
Garden City, Kansas
The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.