United States
Every logged mystery in this country.
- New York
33 Thomas Street (Titanpointe)
A windowless 550 foot Manhattan skyscraper identified through Edward Snowden's leaked documents as a major NSA mass surveillance hub hidden inside a working AT&T switching building.
- Washington
Afterglow Vista
A roofless Masonic mausoleum stands in the woods of San Juan Island, where a limestone baron seated his dead family around a stone dinner table. One chair was left deliberately broken.
- California
Alcatraz
The federal penitentiary on a San Francisco Bay island whose 1962 "impossible" escape was never definitively solved, layered on top of decades of guard and visitor reports of ghostly cellblock activity.
- Pacific Ocean (Howland Island vicinity)
Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart vanished with navigator Fred Noonan over the central Pacific in 1937 while attempting to reach tiny Howland Island during a round-the-world flight, a disappearance that triggered one of the largest air-and-sea searches of its era and has never been conclusively solved.
- New Hampshire
America's Stonehenge
A hillside maze of stone chambers, walls, and a grooved "sacrificial table" in New Hampshire has been called both a 4,000-year-old ceremonial site and a 19th-century farmer's root cellars. A century of argument has not settled it.
- Nevada
Area 51 / Rachel, Nevada
A restricted U.S. Air Force facility in the Nevada desert, publicly acknowledged only in 2013, whose decades of classified aircraft testing fueled UFO lore amplified by Bob Lazar's 1989 claims about reverse-engineered alien technology.
- Vermont
Bennington Triangle
An area of southwestern Vermont, centered on Glastenbury Mountain, within which a cluster of people went missing between 1945 and 1950, a string of disappearances later popularized by author Joseph A. Citro.
- Florida (representative point)
Bermuda Triangle
Lloyd's of London and the U.S. Coast Guard have each gone through the loss records and found no disappearance rate above what other busy, storm-prone shipping lanes produce. No government or geographic body has ever defined the triangle's boundaries, which move depending on who is drawing the map.
- California
Bigfoot / Sasquatch
North America's most famous cryptid, a large, hair-covered bipedal creature reported across the Pacific Northwest for over a century, anchored by the 1958 footprint discovery that gave it its name and the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film that remains its most-debated piece of evidence.
- California
Bohemian Grove
A 2,700 acre private redwood retreat north of San Francisco where some of the country's most powerful men have gathered in secret for over a century, fueling decades of elite conspiracy theories.
- Massachusetts
Bridgewater Triangle
A roughly 200-square-mile area of southeastern Massachusetts, centered on the Hockomock Swamp, associated with a dense cluster of reported phenomena, from Wampanoag legends of the "Pukwudgie" to UFO sightings and a string of unsolved cattle mutilations in the 1970s.
- North Carolina
Brown Mountain Lights
In 1922 the U.S. Geological Survey sent George R. Mansfield to Brown Mountain with a surveying telescope. Over about two weeks he took bearings on every light that appeared and plotted them against rail lines, roads, and homesteads. He attributed 47 percent to automobile headlights and 33 percent to locomotives.
- Virginia
Bunny Man Bridge
A man in a rabbit costume reportedly attacked people with a hatchet in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 1970. The real incidents happened miles from the railway overpass that internet legend has since adopted as the 'Bunny Man Bridge.'
- California
Cabazon Dinosaurs
Two enormous roadside dinosaurs built by a theme park sculptor outside Palm Springs, made famous worldwide by a single scene in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
- Texas
Cadillac Ranch
A public art installation along old Route 66 in Amarillo, Texas, consisting of ten vintage Cadillacs half-buried nose-down in a field, created in 1974 and continuously repainted by visitors ever since.
- Nebraska
Carhenge
A full-scale replica of Stonehenge built from 39 vintage American automobiles, painted gray and arranged in a circle on the Nebraska plains by artist Jim Reinders in 1987.
- Colorado
Casa Bonita
A giant pink Mexican restaurant with cliff divers and a fake cave system became a cult legend through a South Park episode, then reopened in 2023 after a $40 million rebuild by the show's creators.
- Vermont
Champ
A lake monster said to inhabit Lake Champlain on the Vermont and New York border, with reported sightings dating to the 19th century and a famous 1977 photograph that remains the most-cited piece of purported evidence.
- Florida
Coral Castle
A Latvian immigrant spent decades single-handedly carving and moving multi-ton coral limestone blocks in South Florida, then refused to ever fully explain how he did it.
- Kansas
Coronado Heights
A sandstone castle crowns the Kansas hill where legend says Coronado gave up his hunt for the golden cities of Quivira in 1541. A square of 16th century chain mail dug up nearby keeps the story breathing.
- Washington
D.B. Cooper / Tena Bar
A hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted out of a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in 1971 and was never seen again. Nine years later, a boy raking a riverside sandbar found part of the ransom cash, the only physical trace of the case ever recovered.
- Colorado
Denver International Airport
The primary airport serving Denver, Colorado, notable for its distinctive tented roof and a cluster of conspiracy theories alleging secret underground facilities and coded symbolism in its public artwork.
- California
Druid Heights
Up an unmarked lane beside Muir Woods sit the decaying hand-built houses of a hidden bohemian colony where Alan Watts lived and died. The Park Service has owned it for decades; the forest is quietly taking it back.
- New Mexico
Dulce Base
The underground base was invented, and the people who invented it worked for the U.S. Air Force. A counterintelligence officer at Kirtland fed forged documents to an Albuquerque businessman to steer his attention away from the base he was filming, and years later said so publicly.
- Pennsylvania
Eastern State Penitentiary
A former prison in Philadelphia that operated from 1829 to 1971 and pioneered the solitary-confinement-based "Pennsylvania System" of incarceration, now a museum widely promoted as one of the most haunted sites in the United States.
- Michigan
Edison's Last Breath
In a museum case in Dearborn sits a sealed test tube labeled as holding Thomas Edison's final breath, captured at his deathbed in 1931 for Henry Ford. Ford is said to have believed the soul leaves the body in the last exhale.
- Kentucky
Fort Knox
The United States' most heavily guarded gold vault, and the subject of a recurring theory that some or all of its gold has quietly disappeared.
- Ohio
Great Serpent Mound
North America's largest serpent-shaped earthwork stretches a quarter mile along an Ohio ridge. Radiocarbon dating has produced conflicting answers for over a century about which ancient culture actually built it, and when.
- Wisconsin
House on the Rock
A Wisconsin recluse spent decades building an impossible house on a sandstone pillar, then filled it with the world's largest carousel, a 200-foot sea creature, and rooms of artifacts with invented histories. Nobody has ever fully explained why.
- New Jersey
Jersey Devil
A legendary winged, cloven-hoofed cryptid said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, with origins in 18th-century "Leeds Devil" folklore and a notable wave of reported sightings in January 1909.
- Kentucky
Kelly-Hopkinsville Encounter
Eleven members of a Kentucky farm family said they spent a night under siege by small, glowing-eyed creatures in 1955, one of the most witnessed and most thoroughly investigated close-encounter cases in American UFO history.
- Minnesota
Kensington Runestone
A 200 pound slab of greywacke cut with runes and the date 1362, pulled out of a Minnesota field in 1898 by a Swedish immigrant who said he found it clamped in the roots of an aspen. Runologists called it a forgery within a year. A state historical committee called it genuine in 1910.
- West Virginia
Lake Shawnee Amusement Park
An amusement park that opened in 1926 on Mercer County land where a settler family had been attacked in 1783, closed after a girl was killed on the swing ride, and was later found to be sitting on a Native American burial ground. The swing frame and the ferris wheel are still standing in the grass, and the family that owns the land runs tours by appointment.
- Massachusetts
Lizzie Borden House
A historic home in Fall River, Massachusetts, where Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with an axe in 1892, a crime for which Lizzie Borden was tried and acquitted. It is now operated as a bed-and-breakfast widely reputed to be haunted.
- Ohio
Loveland Frogman
A businessman's report of three frog-faced humanoids beside an Ohio road in 1955 became a local legend that resurfaced in 1972 when two Loveland police officers, on separate nights, each reported their own encounter along the same river.
- New Jersey
Lucy the Elephant
A six story wooden elephant built in 1881 to sell New Jersey real estate is now the oldest surviving roadside attraction in America.
- Texas
Marfa Lights
A long-running West Texas ghost-light phenomenon seen near Marfa, where distant orbs are said to brighten, split, drift, and vanish across the desert beyond the official viewing area.
- Illinois
Millstone Bluff
Somebody hauled sandstone to the top of a bluff and walled off every side a person could climb, one of about ten of these in southern Illinois and not one of them shows evidence of a siege. Centuries later a village was built inside the wall, and its house floors are still legible as dents in the forest.
- New York
Montauk Project / Camp Hero
A conspiracy theory claiming secret US government experiments in time travel and mind control were conducted at Camp Hero, a real decommissioned military installation in Montauk, New York, now a public state park.
- West Virginia
Mothman Museum & Research Center
A storefront museum in downtown Point Pleasant dedicated to the red-eyed, winged figure first reported by five witnesses in November 1966, sightings that preceded the collapse of the Silver Bridge thirteen months later.
- California
Mount Shasta Legends
A Northern California volcano surrounded by stories of hidden Lemurians, UFOs, lenticular cloud "motherships," spiritual portals, and mountain folklore.
- Indiana
Muscatatuck Urban Training Center
A complete American town sits in rural Indiana with a hospital, school, prison, and subway station, and no residents. The military built its most realistic fake city on the grounds of a century-old asylum.
- California
Museum of Jurassic Technology
A museum in Culver City that presents genuine scholarship and outright invention in identical vitrines, under identical engraved labels, and declines to tell you which is which. It has never explained what Jurassic Technology means either.
- Ohio
Ohio State Reformatory
A stone castle of a prison with the largest free standing steel cell block ever built inside it, left standing after closure because a film crew had made it famous. Almost everything reported here comes from a single apartment on the third floor, where the man who ran the place and his wife both died.
- Minnesota
Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Built for a winter carnival that opened on January 14, 1937, and never taken down. Babe started as a parade float on a truck chassis, plumbed so the exhaust came out of the ox's nostrils. They are the oldest surviving pair of their kind and the National Register listed them in 1988.
- Arizona
Phoenix Lights
A widely witnessed series of unidentified lights over Arizona and Nevada on the night of March 13, 1997, including a large V-shaped formation seen by thousands across the Phoenix metro area, one of the most famous mass UFO sightings in US history.
- Texas
Presidio de San Saba
Treasure hunters have worked the country around this Spanish fort for two centuries looking for the Lost Bowie Mine. The reason they come is that sometime after 1895 a prankster carved the word "mine" into the gatepost, underneath Jim Bowie's name.
- Utah
Recapture Pocket
A pocket of Mars hiding behind Bluff: hoodoos, mushroom rocks, and balanced stones scattered across BLM land with no signs, no fees, and usually no other people. Goblin Valley's feral little sibling.
- North Carolina
Roanoke Colony
The "Lost Colony," an English settlement established in 1587 on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, whose colonists had vanished without clear trace by the time a resupply ship returned in 1590, leaving only the word "CROATOAN" carved into a post.
- New Mexico
Roswell Incident Site
Debris recovered from a ranch north of Roswell in July 1947 prompted a same-day Army press release calling it a "flying disc," retracted within 24 hours in favor of a weather balloon, a reversal that fueled seven decades of UFO speculation.
- North Dakota
Salem Sue
A giant fiberglass Holstein cow statue built in 1974 overlooking New Salem, North Dakota, advertised as the world's largest Holstein cow statue at roughly 38 feet tall and 50 feet long.
- Massachusetts
Salem Witch Trials Sites
The 1692-93 Massachusetts Bay trials that led to the execution of twenty people are remembered today through preserved sites across Salem, several of which are reported by visitors and locals to be haunted.
- California
Salvation Mountain
A 50-foot folk-art mountain of adobe, hay, and donated paint that one Korean War veteran built alone in the California desert over nearly three decades, turning a message of religious devotion into an unlikely Congressional-recognized "national treasure."
- West Virginia
Silver Bridge Site
The site of the December 15, 1967 Silver Bridge collapse, which killed 46 people and became permanently linked in popular folklore to the Mothman sightings reported in the same area thirteen months earlier.
- Utah
Skinwalker Ranch
A 512-acre ranch in Utah's Uintah Basin where decades of reported UFO sightings, cattle mutilations, and unexplained phenomena drew Indigenous oral tradition, private investigators, and eventually a Pentagon-linked research program.
- Florida
Skunk Ape Research HQ
A real, still-operating roadside research station deep in the Everglades is dedicated to tracking Florida's own Bigfoot. It's run by a man who says he's seen the creature four times since childhood.
- New York
Sleepy Hollow
A village in Westchester County, New York, made famous by Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and its ghostly Headless Horseman, now a destination for Halloween-season folklore tourism.
- Kansas
Stull Cemetery
A small Kansas country cemetery that a 1974 student newspaper article turned into one of the seven gates of hell, complete with a devil who visits twice a year and a grave said to hold the child of Satan.
- Texas
The Aurora Airship Grave
On April 19, 1897, the Dallas Morning News reported that an airship had hit a windmill in Aurora and that the dead pilot, "not an inhabitant of this world," was buried in the town cemetery. The state historical marker at the gate repeats the story. The grave is unmarked and the headstone has been stolen twice.
- Virginia
The Beale Treasure
In 1885 an anonymous pamphlet printed in Lynchburg claimed that a man named Thomas J. Beale had buried gold, silver, and jewels in Bedford County around 1820, and left the directions in three numbered ciphers. Only one cipher has been read, using the Declaration of Independence as its key, and it lists the contents but not the spot. The other two have held for 140 years, and the diggings around Montvale have turned up nothing.
- Wisconsin
The Beast of Bray Road
A bipedal, wolf-like creature reported along a quiet rural road outside Elkhorn since the 1930s, with a cluster of sightings in the late 1980s and 1990s that drew national tabloid attention.
- Rhode Island
The Conjuring House
The 18th-century Rhode Island farmhouse behind the Perron family's haunting, later dramatized in 'The Conjuring,' is now run as a paranormal tourism site. Independent researchers have found the real local history doesn't quite match the legend that grew up around it.
- Illinois
The Couch Tomb
A sealed limestone vault sits on a lawn in Lincoln Park and nobody can say who is inside it. The plaques are blank. It is the last thing left of a cemetery that closed in 1866, and roughly 12,000 of the people buried there were never moved.
- New Jersey
The Devil's Tree
A lone, scarred oak in a Basking Ridge field that locals say punishes anyone who harms or mocks it. Axes have bounced off its trunk, cars supposedly crash after visits, and snow is said to refuse the ground beneath it.
- West Virginia
The Flatwoods Monster
On the evening of September 12, 1952, a group of boys, a mother named Kathleen May, and a 17-year-old National Guardsman walked up a hill outside Flatwoods to look at something that had come down. Braxton County has since built a free museum and a set of giant monster chairs on what they said they saw.
- Arkansas
The Fouke Monster
A Bigfoot-like cryptid said to roam the swampy woodlands near Fouke, Arkansas, with reports stretching back to the early 1970s and a 1972 docudrama that turned the legend into a regional tourist draw.
- California
The Integratron
A wooden, fastener-free dome built by a UFO "contactee" who claimed Venusians gave him blueprints for a machine that could rejuvenate cells and defy gravity. It's now a popular sound-bath venue sitting, by reputation, on a desert geomagnetic vortex.
- Arizona
The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
Jacob Waltz died in Phoenix on October 25, 1891, and the neighbors who nursed him through his last illness said he had spent his final days describing a rich gold mine hidden in the Superstition Mountains east of the city. No mine matching that account has been found in the 130 years since. By 1932 a Coolidge Examiner report counted Adolph Ruth as the ninth person lost to the search.
- Nevada
The M Cave
In 2014, a Las Vegas hiker described finding a cave shaped like a letter M that made his whole body vibrate. When he went back to find it, he vanished. Only his phone was ever recovered.
- Minnesota
The Palmer House Hotel
Sinclair Lewis clerked at the front desk here as a teenager and put the building into Main Street as the Minniemashie House. The ghost stories are a century newer, and in December 2025 the hotel was bought by a paranormal radio host, which makes the haunting the business plan as well as the folklore.
- Colorado
The Stanley Hotel
A historic hotel built in 1909 in Estes Park, Colorado, famous for inspiring Stephen King's "The Shining" after his 1974 stay and widely reputed to be haunted ever since.
- Arizona
The Thing?
A long-running roadside attraction and gift shop off Interstate 10 near Dragoon, Arizona, advertised by dozens of billboards leading up to it and built around a mysterious mummified figure on display inside.
- Minnesota
The Val Johnson Car
At 1:40am on August 27, 1979, a Marshall County deputy radioed that a light had come at his patrol car. The Ford was found 854 feet on, stopped across the road with a broken windshield, a dented hood, and both antennas bent back. His wristwatch and the dashboard clock had each lost 14 minutes.
- West Virginia
TNT Area
The abandoned World War II ordnance works north of Point Pleasant where the first Mothman sightings were reported in November 1966.
- Pennsylvania
Toynbee Tiles
Cryptic tiles reading 'TOYNBEE IDEA...RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER' have been embedded in city streets since the 1980s. Investigators believe they've identified the reclusive likely creator, but he's never confirmed it himself.
- California (offshore, W-291 Warning Area)
USS Nimitz "Tic Tac" UFO Incident
A 2004 radar and visual encounter between U.S. Navy fighter pilots and an unidentified, wingless "Tic Tac"-shaped object off the California coast, later confirmed by the Pentagon as genuine footage, making it one of the best-documented unresolved UFO cases on record.
- California
Watts Towers
An Italian immigrant laborer with no art training spent 33 years building 17 soaring towers from scrap steel and broken tile in his backyard, then walked away without explanation.
- California
Winchester Mystery House
A sprawling, architecturally bewildering San Jose mansion built continuously for nearly four decades by firearms heiress Sarah Winchester, popularly explained as spirit-guided design to confuse vengeful ghosts, though the historical record tells a more mundane story.
- Ohio
Wright-Patterson AFB / Hangar 18
The Ohio Air Force base long rumored to hold the wreckage and bodies from the 1947 Roswell crash, in a hangar the Air Force insists does not exist.
- California
Yuba County Five
Five young men vanished after a Northern California basketball game in 1978, their car found abandoned on a remote, snowed-in forest road far off their route home. One body wasn't found until months later, in a locked trailer 19 miles away, and a fifth man was never recovered at all.