Crater Lake, Oregon
Crater Lake
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
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Long Beach, Washington
Marsh's Free Museum
Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.
Warrenton, Oregon
The Wreck of the Peter Iredale
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Astoria, Oregon
The Astoria Column
A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.
Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola Graffiti Bridge
A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.
Guadalajara, Mexico
Panteón de Belen (Santa Paula Cemetery)
This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
Puna End of the Road
In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.
Hilo, Hawaii
Waiānuenue (Rainbow Falls)
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Hilo, Hawaii
Mauna Kea
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Musical Highway
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec Ruins National Monument
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Shiprock
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell McDonald's
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Roswell, New Mexico
International UFO Museum and Research Center
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Carlsbad Caverns
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Austin, Nevada
Nevada State Route 722
US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.
Battle Mountain, Nevada
Armpit of America
Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.
Reno, Nevada
Topsy the Clown
This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.
Beatty, Nevada
'Rhyolite's District of Shadows'
A land of debatable treasure.
Winnemucca, Nevada
Humboldt Museum
Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants
Beatty, Nevada
Tom Kelly's Bottle House
The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.
Boulder City, Nevada
Hoover Dam Old Exhibit Building
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
Beatty, Nevada
Albert Szukalski's Last Supper
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Austin, Nevada
U.S. Route 50
Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.
