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The last remaining Shaker community still practices a uniquely communal and utopian version of Christianity.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

This park straddling the United States-Canadian border has been a symbol of peace since 1932.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

The site of the surrender of Colonel Fannin and his men during the Texas Revolution.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

This massive, ancient canal system was built using only sticks and stones.

Site of a tragedy on the Oregon Trail.

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

This heritage rail line meanders through Delaware’s Red Clay Valley.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

The history of this futuristic crypt-turned-temple is as curious as its facade.