Boulder City, Nevada
Winged Figures of the Republic
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
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Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
Inverness, California
An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.
Atlanta, Georgia
Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.
Fez, Morocco
This former royal palace with gorgeous gardens became the first museum in Morocco.
Hot Springs, North Carolina
North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.
Asheville, North Carolina
This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.
Lake Junaluska, North Carolina
Largest display of Wesleyana anywhere in the world.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.
White Lake, New York
These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
St. Augustine, Florida
An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.
Sooke, British Columbia
A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Concepción, Chile
Dedicated to the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, this aging edifice is the only one of its kind in the Americas.
Speyer, Germany
Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.
Kętrzyn County, Poland
This hilltop ruin is of the hundreds of stone columns built in tribute to the first German chancellor.
New York, New York
A memorial marks the library lobby where Langston Hughes' ashes are buried.
Concord, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.
St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.
South Lyon, Michigan
This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.
Shelby, Michigan
A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.
Suiderstrand, South Africa
All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.
Appomattox, Virginia
The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.