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In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.