Tonopah, Nevada
Lunar Crater
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tonopah, Nevada
This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.
Bluff City, Tennessee
A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Pisco, Peru
The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.
Tampa, Florida
A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.
Bethel, Maine
Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
Hobro, Denmark
A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.
Brooklyn, New York
Ride the subways of yesteryear.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Washington, D.C.
A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.
Porangahau, New Zealand
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Paris, Arkansas
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
Munich, Germany
A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.
Berlin, Germany
A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Mentor, Ohio
A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.
Celina, Ohio
A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.