Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A folk art mecca famous among outsider art fans.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

A provocative museum dedicated to the genre and the harsh realities that inspired its origins.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.