Gallatin, Missouri
Adam-ondi-Ahman
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
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Gallatin, Missouri
A Mormon place of exile in Missouri.
Brooklyn, New York
This micro-industry of Latino cuisine along Red Hook's Ball Fields represents a victory in a food fight with the city.
Bremerton, Washington
The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.
Milpitas, California
This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.
Battle Mountain, Nevada
Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.
Summerdale, Alabama
Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.
Kingsburg, California
A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.
United States Minor Outlying Islands
An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."
Bronx, New York
Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.
New York, New York
The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.
Barrington, Illinois
With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.
Washington, D.C.
‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’
Danvers, Massachusetts
The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.
Cold Spring, Minnesota
After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.
Gardner, Massachusetts
In a town that's had a whole lot of giant chairs this one still stands tall, just not the tallest.
Boston, Massachusetts
A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.
Vallejo, California
The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.
Mountain View, California
A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.
Williams, Minnesota
This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.
Cleveland, Ohio
A bronze monument to Cleveland's favorite, fastest son.
Kearney, Missouri
One of America's first planned communities is preserved in a state park.