Cross Plains, Texas
Woody’s Classic Cars and Baseball Museum
An Americana dreamscape.
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Cross Plains, Texas
An Americana dreamscape.
Imlay, Nevada
The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."
Lovelock, Nevada
An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.
Woolsey, Nevada
A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.
Joshua Tree, California
This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.
Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico
A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.
Honolulu, Hawaii
This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii
The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Honolulu, Hawaii
A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.
Kansas City, Missouri
The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.
Rangalifinolhu, Maldives
An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Cheyenne, Wyoming
The only retired U.S. nuclear missile silo that is open to the public.
Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.
Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.
Grover, Colorado
On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.
Seligman, Arizona
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Kingman, Arizona
Don't blink or you'll miss it.
Peach Springs, Arizona
One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.
Valentine, Arizona
The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.
Allen Park, Michigan
The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.
Chloride, Arizona
All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.
Newport News, Virginia
This former POW camp was transformed into a Cold War missile installation.