Florissant, Colorado
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
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Florissant, Colorado
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Mexico City, Mexico
CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.
Providence, Rhode Island
A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.
South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.
Westerly, Rhode Island
Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.
Newport, Rhode Island
A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.
Foster, Rhode Island
As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.
Burrillville, Rhode Island
This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.
Charlestown, Rhode Island
250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Ferizaj, Kosovo
Christianity and Islam have clashed, yet here a Serbian Orthodox church and a mosque stand together.
Mitrovica, Kosovo
Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.
Tucson, Arizona
Religious statues built because of one man's bargain with God fill this peaceful sculpture garden.
Tucson, Arizona
A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.
Laupahoehoe, Hawaii
The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.
Hilo, Hawaii
This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.
Pāhoa, Hawaii
A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.