The Most Mysterious Place You Can Visit in Every US State

It’s easy to plan a trip in the United States around places known for being haunted. But anyone can conjure a ghost story or start a rumor by saying they saw a mysterious shape. Haunted places can be fascinating, but also disappointing — especially when these places are treated more as a gimmicky way to make money than as an actual supernatural experience.

However, there’s no shortage of truly mysterious places across the country — places that have been studied, researched, analyzed, and visited for years but still can’t be explained by science.

The US is loaded with eerie and unexplained destinations thanks to a host of factors: its vast and diverse geography, its rich history, and its layers of intersecting cultural influences, to name a few. Some mysteries originated less than a hundred years ago, others millennia. The country’s Indigenous nations all have their own stories about spirits, phenomena, creatures, and dangers tied to the landscape. Mix in fears and urban legends about wild animals and UFOs, plus the fact that the US government has some of the world’s most advanced secret technology, and it’s no wonder each of the 50 states has its own mysterious destination that skeptics and investigators alike can’t get enough of.

From swamps that may host unknown creatures to entire mountains that may hold everything from hidden portals to buried treasure, these are the most mysterious places worth visiting in every US state.