Hearne, Texas
Grave in the Road
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
New York, New York
Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.
United States / Canada
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Ovid, New York
An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.
Dover Plains, New York
This isolated community does not want you to visit.
Warwick, New York
Six peaceful acres in a residential neighborhood dedicated to art and peace.
Washington, D.C.
A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.
Monroe, Connecticut
A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.
Los Angeles, California
Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.
Tampa, Florida
Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.
Lake George, New York
A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Tampa, Florida
A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.
Ireland
Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Washington, D.C.
Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.