Exeter, New Hampshire
Exeter UFO Festival
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Places I've been
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Exeter, New Hampshire
Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.
Cañon City, Colorado
This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
Winter Park, Colorado
Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.
Lake City, Colorado
The site of the gruesome massacre—and maybe cannibalism—of five men, a tragedy that made Alferd Packer infamous.
Chicago, Illinois
The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.
Chicago, Illinois
These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.
Chicago, Illinois
This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.
Morro Bay, California
A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
Dallas, Texas
The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Houston, Texas
An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.
Houston, Texas
In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Lakewood, Colorado
One man's love for East Coast diner culture brought an entire eatery all the way from New Jersey to Colorado.