Boulder City, Nevada
Hoover Dam Old Exhibit Building
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
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Boulder City, Nevada
Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."
Tonopah, Nevada
Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Little America, Wyoming
Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.
Cairo, Illinois
The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Tiptonville, Kentucky
Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Polson, Montana
With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Cody, Wyoming
At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.
Tucson, Arizona
Run by members of the Tohono O'odham Nation, this community farm nurtures traditional desert cultivars.
Sahuarita, Arizona
One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.
San Diego, California
L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.
San Diego, California
One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.
Dyess, Arkansas
The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.
Earle, Arkansas
The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.