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This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

Ruins from the Parthenon and petrified wood line the interior of one of the world's most famous monuments.

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

An unconventional monument to one of America's largest landowners.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.

A family-owned store specializing in minerals, geodes, gemstones, and more.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

The second oldest jail in Florida gives insight into the realities of the criminal justice system at the turn of the 20th century.

The menus here are a love letter to the culinary history of New Orleans.

At this multicultural hub, refugee chefs serve the foods they miss most from home.

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

This modest structure is where noted musician and the Band drummer Levon Helm grew up.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

Sometimes called the “Little Golden Gate," this bright yellow structure is the last driveable suspension bridge in Arkansas.

Have a heavy metal Christmas at this bizarre Turkish-American restaurant.

The walls, tables, and much of the ceiling in this pizzeria are covered with $40,000 in $1 bills.

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

Pieces of a stone giant are embedded in the earth of this Colorado park's playground.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.