Conata, South Dakota
Conata
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
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Conata, South Dakota
A ghost town now swarming with dozens of prairie dogs.
East Haddam, Connecticut
One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.
Middletown, Connecticut
A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.
Danbury, Connecticut
This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.
Southington, Connecticut
A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.
Farmington, Connecticut
These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.
Hartford, Connecticut
An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.
New Haven, Connecticut
The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.
New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Meagher, Montana
Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.
Vienna, Austria
Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.
Lafayette, Louisiana
A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.
Chauvin, Louisiana
Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.
Belle Rose, Louisiana
This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.
New Orleans, Louisiana
According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.
Carthage, Arkansas
Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Olive Branch, Mississippi
Walk through row upon row of manicured miniature trees at the United States' largest bonsai nursery.
Memphis, Tennessee
This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.