Greensburg, Kansas
The Big Well
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
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Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Mullinville, Kansas
Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.
Point Lookout, Missouri
This museum features the original car used on the Beverly Hillbillies sitcom.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?
Forneys Creek, North Carolina
This winding road of 318 curves is a must-visit for (careful) motorcycle and sports car enthusiasts.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Niagara Falls, New York
One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.
Nye County, Nevada
Equipment used to mine silver and lead has been preserved in this almost-ghost town in northern Nye County.
Topeka, Kansas
See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
El Paso, Texas
This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
San Antonio, Texas
The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.
Stonecrest, Georgia
Like Mars, but much closer.
Nassau, Bahamas
This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.
Chloride, Arizona
All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Winslow, Arizona
A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.