Most Recent Places

An old adobe structure first built in the 1890s is a desert watering hole plastered with dollar bills and odd West Texas finds.

The highest mountain in Hokkaido was the setting for one of Japan’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

A beautiful piece of history in a very remote area that allowed ranchers to move their herds.

A lineup of a dozen or so Japanese light tanks from WWII.

A piece of I-45 graffiti has become one of Houston’s unofficial slogans.

It celebrates the four men from South Africa who have won the Nobel Peace Prize.

An early 20th-century school building whose clock tower and carved symbols quietly tell the story of the trades once taught inside.

Once an important military landmark, this centuries old fort regained its popularity in modern times due to an iconic Bollywood film.

A sandstone corridor so narrow that it feels like the wilderness closing in on itself.

A blufftop prairie and limestone cliff with 30-mile views across two great rivers and prime bald eagle territory.

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

An Illinois prairie preserve where the real show begins after sunset.

A century-old wooden walkway where artists and free spirits have built a funky, countercultural main street.

The oldest western-style houses in Japan are centered around the industrialist Thomas Glover.

The Princess Mishawaka statue and story honor the legend of a Shawnee Indian heroine and promoted tourism in the 1930s.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity