The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

A local prank turned town icon.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This famous Nevada gold mine, once a hotbed of Wild West shenanigans, is now open for tours.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

A private museum dedicated to preserving the heritage of Mardi Gras' most beloved underdog parades, open by appointment.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This collector's home is a constant work in progress.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This Seattle store is packed with all sorts of curious creatures and creations.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.