Hillsborough, North Carolina
Historic Occaneechee Speedway
One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.
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Hillsborough, North Carolina
One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.
Point Harbor, North Carolina
The perfect place to take a family of giants for a beach vacation.
Hendersonville, North Carolina
These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.
Claremont, North Carolina
A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.
Kernersville, North Carolina
Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.
Bear Creek, North Carolina
A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The wreckage of a deadly bomber plane crash can still be found near an Arizona peak.
Ochopee, Florida
In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Homestead, Florida
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Mount Charleston, Nevada
A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.
Predjama, Slovenia
Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.
Kumbakonam, India
This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.
Rapid City, South Dakota
One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.
Nienhagen, Germany
Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.