Washington, D.C.
Secret Entrance to the White House
The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.
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Washington, D.C.
The winding route passes through an enclosed alleyway, two tunnels, and leads to the White House basement.
Buffalo, New York
This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.
Dodgeville, Wisconsin
One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
McCall, Idaho
The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.
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."
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Plymouth's huge yet little-known memorial to the Pilgrims.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Sur Lípez, Bolivia
A desert that evokes the surreal.
Mansfield, England
An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.
Linby, England
A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.
Tamarugal, Chile
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.
White Pine County, Nevada
These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Wilmington, North Carolina
A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.
Talala, Oklahoma
A detached cement mixer has been transformed to resemble a relic from some obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.
Buffalo, New York
The absurd creation is a compulsory destination for selfies in Buffalo.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Brewer, Maine
Maine’s only official memorial to the Underground Railroad.
Eastport, Maine
Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.