Millinocket, Maine
Mount Katahdin
The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Millinocket, Maine
The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Bethesda, Maryland
Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Belle Fourche, South Dakota
Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.
Washington, D.C.
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
Philippines
An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
Gibraltar
Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.
Bahamas
One of the deepest blue holes in the world.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Ronggur Nihuta, Indonesia
Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.
Menchum, Cameroon
Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.
Chamoli, India
A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.