Discover some of the strangest locations in the States and their stories with America's Weirdest Places! From roads to nowhere to subway secret doors, natural wonders to city streets, spooky haunts and alien encounters, you'll find some of the most bizarre places in the Union in these pages!
Welcome to the weindness
HOME OF THE STRANGE • Despite its image of shiny modernity, America is a land haunted by ghosts and myths, some native, others imported. Come with us on a journey to its flipside…
GHOST TO GHOST Road Trip • Get your motor running with this hair-raising cross-continental journey across the USA from sea to spooky sea
Weird WASHINGTON D.C. • The country’s capital has a slew of iconic buildings but also some lesser-known stranger places
FORMED IN THE USA • When it comes to the weird and wonderful, nothing humans create can ever match Mother Nature when it comes to building the bizarre
THE Mysterious Marfa Lights • For more than 100 years, mysterious and colourful orbs of light have illuminated the night sky over the town of Marfa, Texas
The VOODOO-VIBED necropolis • From dark magic and vampires to slavery, plagues and hurricanes, there are endless reasons why New Orleans is considered America’s most haunted city
BAD but, Beautiful • America is big in a way that they just don’t see in Europe. You’ll be driving to get to these badlands and, in most cases, you’ll be a long way from anywhere
The Stilt Village of UKIVOK • Hugging a sheer cliff side on a small island off Alaska is an abandoned town built on wooden stilts
IF YOU GO Down TO THE woods… • Once a bustling settlement, by the 1950s, Portlock, Alaska, was a ghost town. Did the mysterious creatures said to stalk the surrounding forests drive its people out?
Road to nowhere • The US-83 highway is one of the longest, loneliest yet most poignant routes through rural America
Elkmont’s SYNCHRONISED FIREFLIES • Tourists flock to a mountain forest in Tennessee that flickers in the darkness, all thanks to a firefly mating ritual
A VANISHED COLONY The MYSTERY of ROANOKE • A 16th century English settlement on America’s eastern seaboard held out great promise, and then simply disappeared. Historians have been wondering what happened ever since
PECULIAR PENINSULAS & IDIOSYNCRATIC ISLANDS • From isolated lake islets to tropical keys, the states are home to numerous archipelagoes that boast some weird and wonderful sites to explore
OVERSEAS HIGHWAY • From Miami to Key West, this scenic route will offer up the best views of America’s East Coast
The BUILDING of CORAL CASTLE • Built to mend a broken heart, does Florida’s Coral Castle containmystical secrets that have yet to be decoded?
New York CITY OF WEIRD • In the city so nice they named it twice, you’re never too far away from something weird
The Headless Horseman’s Haunt real • Many know Sleepy Hollow from TV and film, but the story is 200 years old and the village is as (and macabre) as can be
STRANGE ATTRACTIONS • The United States is home to many of the world’s weirdest locations
The Lost Sea • Descend into a network of winding caverns below Tennessee to find the largest known underground lake in the USA
Strange SAN FRANCISCO • From the ocean’s very own instrument to indoor mazes, San Francisco is varied in its weirdness
THE Bridgewater Triangl • This area of southeastern Massachusetts is reputedly a paranormal powerhouse
EERIE APPALACHIA • Looking for the bizarre and unusual? Appalachia is your one-stop-shop for all things weird
America’s Answer to Stonehenge CARHENGE • On the High Plains of Nebraska visitors can see a replica...