Eastham, Massachusetts
First Encounter Beach Plaque
This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.
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Eastham, Massachusetts
This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.
Provincetown, Massachusetts
This stimulating sex toy museum is sure to arouse the interest of its visitors.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.
Dennis, Massachusetts
This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.
Groom, Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.
Monterey, California
The oldest continuously operating church in California.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
San Bernardino County, California
This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.
Ludlow, California
One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.
Palo Alto, California
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
Hayward, California
Here, Father Agapius Honcharenko established his homestead, becoming the first nationally conscious Ukrainian to settle in the United States.
Los Altos, California
The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.