San Francisco, California
Spreckels Mansion
27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
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San Francisco, California
27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.
Hohenwald, Tennessee
This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Few of the many visitors to this resort town know of its hidden Maya ruins.
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
One of Mexico's least-visited archaeological sites is tucked away inside a theme park.
Washington, Wisconsin
The oldest continuously-operating tavern in Wisconsin used a clever loophole to serve alcohol during Prohibition.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.
Puerto Palomas, Mexico
A mecca of Mexican art and cuisine just over the border.
El Paso, Texas
This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.
El Paso, Texas
The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.
El Paso, Texas
A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.
El Paso, Texas
A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.
Hartsville, South Carolina
The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.
Seattle, Washington
This contemporary art museum is filled with other, smaller museums, which feature work from artists primarily in the Pacific Northwest.
Carthage, Missouri
An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.
Independence, Missouri
A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.
Wilson, Kansas
This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.
Wilson, Kansas
A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Omaha, Nebraska
A miniature baseball stadium honoring Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium, home of the College World Series from 1950-2010.
Omaha, Nebraska
An Englishman loses his scalp to a Cheyenne warrior and lives to donate it to a library.