America's Strangest Trips

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 29, 2008 1:03 AM CDT
America's Strangest Trips
A Latvian immigrant built Coral Castle in Homestead, Fla. out of 1,100 tons of limestone.   (Shutterstock)

Americans can stop longing for trips to mysterious locales like the Bermuda Triangle and Stonehenge, Travel + Leisure reports. Even stranger vacation spots exist within the 50 states:

  • Racetrack Playa in Death Valley, Calif: So-called "sailing stones" move strangely over the sandy surface. Some blame strong winds, which reach 90 mph, but no one knows why they slide around.
  • Skinwalker Ranch in Uintah Basin, Utah: Underground roars, floating blue lights, and animal mutilations haunt this 480-acre compound.

  • Oregon Vortex in Gold Hill, Ore.: Watch a ball roll uphill or a broom stand on its own at this strange spot, perhaps affected by odd gravitational pull. Animals still refuse to go there.
  • Paulding, Mich.: Dancing, multicolored "Paulding lights" regularly attract visitors. Some say a dead train brakeman haunts nearby woods; scientists are yet to explain it.
  • Coral Castle in Homestead, Fla.: A slight Latvian immigrant built this structure with 1,100 tons of limestone boulders—but how?
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