Burnet, Texas
Longhorn Cavern
An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.
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Burnet, Texas
An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.
Chanute, Kansas
A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.
Churchill, Manitoba
A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Hershey, Pennsylvania
This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.
Page, Arizona
These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.
Page, Arizona
Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.
Page, Arizona
This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.
Wendover, Utah
A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.
Last Chance, Colorado
Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.
Athens, Georgia
Though it is far from the site of the attacks on September 11, 2001, this memorial trail commemorates the lives that were lost on that day.
Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
Houston, Texas
The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.
Denton, Texas
A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.
Gasquet, California
A carnivorous plant paradise in a serpentine bog.
Pebble Beach, California
This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.
Dallas, Texas
The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.
Terrell, Texas
A tribute to one of the most memorable characters from the Transformers movie series.
Greenville, Texas
The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.
Tyler, Texas
The largest public collection of roses in the United States.
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.
Cricqueville-en-Bessin, France
The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.
Pittsburg, Texas
Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.