Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A classic mystery spot complete with spots that are said to make you shrink or grow when you stand on them.