Abiquiu, New Mexico
Echo Amphitheater
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
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Abiquiu, New Mexico
Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Onsted, Michigan
The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.
Nashua, Montana
This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.
Fort Benton, Montana
A small Montana town commemorates the dog who waited at the train station every day for his owner to return.
Meagher, Montana
Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
New Mexico
One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.
Lovell, Wyoming
Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.
Park County, Montana
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Red Lodge, Montana
Derelict buildings are all that remain of a complex at the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Montana history.
Worden, Montana
The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.
Forest Grove, Montana
A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.
Archbald, Pennsylvania
It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.
Lake and Peninsula, Alaska
The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Nashville, Tennessee
The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.
New York, New York
Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.
Brookline, Massachusetts
This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.