Alamo, Nevada
The Black Mailbox
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Places I've been
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Alamo, Nevada
Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.
Groom Lake, Nevada
In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.
Nye County, Nevada
The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Biloxi, Mississippi
A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
Pensacola, Florida
The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Miamisburg, Ohio
The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.
Dayton, Ohio
A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Sundance, Wyoming
This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.
Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Rapid City, South Dakota
A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Pasadena, California
A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.
Los Angeles, California
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Lompoc, California
With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.