Phoenix, Arizona
'Her Secret Is Patience'
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
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Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Bronx, New York
The loneliest island in New York.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.
Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A collection of haunted objects and macabre oddities under one roof.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
LaCrosse, Washington
An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.