Sterling, Virginia
Dulles Airport Mobile Lounges
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
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Sterling, Virginia
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.
Saratoga Springs, New York
A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.
Shelburne, Vermont
A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
South Burlington, Vermont
A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.
Cleveland, Ohio
This Rodin sculpture in Cleveland bears the lasting marks of a 1970 bombing.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Wichita, Kansas
The largest mural in the world painted by a single artist.
Wichita, Kansas
A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.
Wichita, Kansas
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Liberal, Kansas
Raised high above the Cimarron River, this 1,268-foot rail bridge followed a half-century of trainwrecks, bridge collapses, and an abandoned town.
Yermo, California
Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.
Yermo, California
A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Sloan, Nevada
Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.
Dakar, Senegal
Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.
Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire
The world's largest church atop a political fault line.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Discovered in a peat bog, these horned helms come from a thousand years before the Viking Age.
Copenhagen, Denmark
One of Scandinavia's largest mosaics pays tribute to Danish art and science luminaries.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.