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Lizzie Borden House

Fall River, Massachusetts

The Fall River house where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed in 1892 now operates as a museum and inn centered on one of America's most…

Historic Oddities

Coney Island Hot Dog Stand

Bailey, Colorado

Shaped like a giant hot dog complete with bun and toppings, the Coney Island Hot Dog Stand is one of Colorado's most beloved roadside attractions. This…

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Strataca

Hutchinson, Kansas

A 90-second elevator ride drops visitors 650 feet into an active salt mine with miles of tunnels and underground exhibits.

Haunted Locations

Villisca Axe Murder House

Villisca, Iowa

An ordinary white farmhouse preserves the setting of an unsolved 1912 mass murder and welcomes tours and overnight guests.

Historic Oddities

Ames Monument

Buford, Wyoming

A sixty-foot granite pyramid stands almost alone on the Wyoming prairie because the railroad it was built beside eventually moved away.

Abandoned Places

Monson Center

Hollis, New Hampshire

Walk the cellar holes and vanished streets of an eighteenth-century ghost town.

Curious Landmarks

House of Tomorrow

Beverly Shores, Indiana

A twelve-sided 1933 World's Fair house once wrapped in glass, moved by barge from Chicago to the Indiana lakeshore.

Haunted Locations

Historic Squirrel Cage Jail

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Prison cells once rotated inside this Victorian jail like a human-sized carousel controlled by a hand crank.

Historic Oddities

Mars Bluff Atomic Bomb Crater

Florence, South Carolina

In 1958, a U.S. Air Force bomber accidentally dropped a nuclear weapon near Florence. Its conventional explosives detonated, destroying buildings and blasting a crater into the…