Bellevue, Alberta
Frank Slide
A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Field, British Columbia
Yoho National Park
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
Sparwood, British Columbia
The World's Largest Tandem Axle Truck
Nestled near the mountains of western Canada resides this behemoth earth mover.
Alberta
Columbia Icefield
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Banff, Alberta
Banff Springs Hotel
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.
Drumheller, Alberta
The Hoodoos of Drumheller Valley
Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.
Okotoks, Alberta
Big Rock Erratic
This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The Crow's Nest at the Old Faithful Inn
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Old Faithful Geyser
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Grand Prismatic Spring
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
California City, California
California City: The Unbuilt Suburb
The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.
Lancaster, California
Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve
Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.
Permanently Closed
New York, New York
James Farley Post Office Museum
A grand New York post office that is home to mailman Santas, scraps of postal history, and a pneumatic mail system.
New York, New York
Keen's Steakhouse
Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.
New York, New York
Campbell Apartment
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
Berlin Wall Section
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Cat Sanctuary
The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
Queens, New York
The Noguchi Museum
A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Tramway
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
New York, New York
Strawberry Fields Memorial
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.
