Flagstaff, Arizona
Walnut Canyon
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
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Flagstaff, Arizona
Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.
Koloa, Hawaii
This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.
Columbia, South Carolina
This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.
Morehead, Kentucky
Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.
Holbrook, Arizona
A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
St. Augustine, Florida
In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.
Richmond, Virginia
This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Kansas City, Missouri
A piece of John the Baptist in the American heartland.
Kansas City, Missouri
This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
This Wild West attraction is alive with glitching automatons.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Beaufort, North Carolina
Burial site more than 300 years old.
Lahaina, Hawaii
Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."