Aztec, New Mexico
Aztec Ruins National Monument
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
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Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.
Montgomery, Alabama
Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.
Montgomery, Alabama
The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.
Grand Junction, Colorado
This remote Colorado canyon is home to the second-largest collection of natural arches in the world.
Durango, Colorado
A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.
Durango, Colorado
A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Above Breckenridge, a destructive mining technique sits sunken in a small pond.
Dassel, Minnesota
The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.
Annapolis, Maryland
This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Annapolis, Maryland
This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.
Annapolis, Maryland
Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.
Easton, Maryland
The only one-room schoolhouse remaining in Talbot County, Maryland.
Medora, North Dakota
The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.
Medora, North Dakota
Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.
Regent, North Dakota
One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.
New Salem, North Dakota
The world's largest Holstein cow.
Bismarck, North Dakota
Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.
Fort Yates, North Dakota
This stone, said to have once been a young woman, is sacred to the Dakota and Lakota nations.
Strasburg, North Dakota
The humble beginnings of the man known for his lavish "champagne" music.
Wahpeton, North Dakota
On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.