Temagami, Ontario
Temagami Fire Tower
Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.
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Temagami, Ontario
Stunning views over Ontario's old-growth pine forests.
Sudbury, Ontario
Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.
Malartic, Québec
The largest open-pit gold mine in Canada.
Winkler County, Texas
Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.
Auburn, Massachusetts
A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.
Queens, New York
A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.
Kilgore, Texas
A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.
Grand Saline, Texas
A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.
Austin, Texas
Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."
Round Rock, Texas
This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.
Antarctica
An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.
Hanksville, Utah
A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.
Hanksville, Utah
At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.
Nevada City, California
This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.
Nevada City, California
The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.
Portola, California
A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.
Sierra City, California
A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Quartzsite, Arizona
A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.
Holmdel, New Jersey
Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.
Holmdel, New Jersey
This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.
Wall, South Dakota
One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.