Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia Ghost Town Church
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
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Centralia, Pennsylvania
A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
St. Augustine, Florida
Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Titusville, Florida
A building so large that it has its own weather.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Austin, Texas
Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Collinsville, Illinois
Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.
Baltimore, Maryland
This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Washington, D.C.
A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.
Archbald, Pennsylvania
It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.
Nashville, Tennessee
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
Olney, Illinois
The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
Brevard, North Carolina
This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.
Bristol, Florida
A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.