Front Royal, Virginia
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.
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Front Royal, Virginia
This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
White Post, Virginia
An eponymous directional signpost erected by the first president of the United States.
Berryville, Virginia
A renovated schoolhouse that highlights the history of Clarke County's Black community.
Charles Town, West Virginia
This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.
Frederick, Maryland
Rumors persist that a bottle of whiskey is sealed within this Demijohn-shaped adornment.
Frederick, Maryland
This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
Flagstaff, Arizona
An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
Orderville, Utah
Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.
Page, Arizona
This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.
Page, Arizona
These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.
Cameron, Arizona
More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.
Tuba City, Arizona
One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.
Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
A monument to the one-armed geologist who led the first documented expeditions through the Grand Canyon.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A replica of the flagpole that gave a frontier town its name.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.