Middletown, Maryland
The (First) Washington Monument
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
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Middletown, Maryland
Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.
Warm Springs, Virginia
Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Rothsay, Minnesota
The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.
Cooperstown, North Dakota
These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.
Blanchard, North Dakota
This sky-high radio mast is formerly the tallest man-made structure in the world.
Sibley, Iowa
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Little Falls, Minnesota
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Jordan, Minnesota
This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.
Honduras
Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.
Virginia City, Montana
An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.
Dubois, Idaho
This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.