Nueva Gerona, Cuba
Presidio Modelo
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
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Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Detroit, Michigan
This former industrial site has transformed into a community sculpture garden that hosts monthly Full Moon parties.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Cleveland, Ohio
Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.
Cleveland, Ohio
Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.
Cambria, California
A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Los Angeles, California
The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Cleveland, Ohio
This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.
Cleveland, Ohio
A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.
North Bend, Washington
Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.
Glendale, California
A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.
Pasadena, California
A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.
Barstow, California
The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Daggett, California
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.