Cañon City, Colorado
Royal Gorge Bridge
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Loretto Chapel
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Bradbury Science Museum
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
San Francisco, California
Alcatraz Island
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Austin, Texas
Uncommon Objects
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Custer, South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
London, England
Greenwich Foot Tunnel
A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.
London, England
Sir John Soane's Museum
A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.
London, England
Highgate Cemetery
London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.
Portland, Oregon
Voodoo Doughnut and Wedding Chapel
The magic's in the hole!
North Vancouver, British Columbia
Capilano Suspension Bridge
This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.
Grindavík, Iceland
Blue Lagoon
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Silver Spring, Maryland
Acorn Park
Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.
Arlington, Virginia
Rosslyn Metro Escalator
At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.
District of Columbia
Darth Vader Grotesque
The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.
Washington, D.C.
Space Window at the Washington National Cathedral
A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.
Washington, D.C.
The Adams Memorial
A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.
Washington, D.C.
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.
Washington, D.C.
Owney the Postal Dog
A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.
Evergreen, Colorado
Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway
The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Garden of the Gods
Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Manitou Springs Penny Arcade
While most of the games in this arcade take quarters, that would have been a small fortune when they were made.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Pikes Peak Summit House
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
