Natchez, Mississippi
Under-the-Hill Saloon
A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.
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Natchez, Mississippi
A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Natchez, Mississippi
Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.
Kanab, Utah
This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
New York, New York
You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.
Keeseville, New York
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
Brooklyn, New York
A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Ithaca, New York
A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.
Brooklyn, New York
A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.
Bronx, New York
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Brooklyn, New York
First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.
Brooklyn, New York
Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
New York, New York
Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.