Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Sputnik IV Crash Site
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
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Manitowoc, Wisconsin
A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Hillsborough, California
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.
Wilmington, Delaware
Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.
Rapid City, South Dakota
This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.
Harbor Springs, Michigan
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
Bartlett, Illinois
This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.
Waxhaw, North Carolina
Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Margate City, New Jersey
Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."
Charleston, South Carolina
Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.
Seattle, Washington
An allegedly haunted mansion with a tragic, tawdry past.
Iron Township, Missouri
Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.
New York, New York
Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Elberta, Alabama
Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.
Nekoma, North Dakota
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.
Brooklyn, New York
Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.