Los Angeles, California
Rustic Canyon's Murphy Ranch
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
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Los Angeles, California
World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.
Kent, Ohio
Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.
Matawan, New Jersey
The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Ypres, Belgium
In an area where the remnants of WWI are discovered on a regular basis this preserved frontline trench may be the most amazing.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.
Alexandria, New York
The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.
Telluride, Colorado
This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.
New York, New York
This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.
Waidhofen, Germany
A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Cleveland, North Carolina
Mystery surrounds a famous marshal of Napoleon's army.
Richmond, Virginia
The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.
Center, Colorado
One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.
Bangor, Maine
The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.
Fleury-devant-Douaumont, France
Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.
Chicago, Illinois
Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.