Houston, Texas
Arthur B. Cohn House
A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.
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Houston, Texas
A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
Cross Plains, Texas
The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.
Natchez, Mississippi
A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Danby, Vermont
The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.
Wallace, Idaho
It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.
Saint Maries, Idaho
Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.
Mount Ida, Arkansas
You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.
Granite Falls, Washington
Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.
Everett, Washington
This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.
Los Angeles, California
This 'Murder House' grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Ponca City, Oklahoma
This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.
Commerce, Oklahoma
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
Carthage, Illinois
The site where Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, was killed by a mob.
Burlington, Iowa
While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.
Fort Madison, Iowa
At a mile long, the Fort Madison Bridge is the largest double-decker swing-span bridge in the world.
Quincy, Illinois
This Mediterranean castle was built for a millionaire and his giant dog.