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A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

The pharmacy's retro ice cream mixer is one of the last of its kind.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A notorious punk house turned co-op.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.