Apollo Beach, Florida
Big Bend Power Plant Manatee Viewing Area
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
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Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Roanoke, Virginia
This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.
Rockford, Illinois
The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.
Yemassee, South Carolina
Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.
Washoe County, Nevada
Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.
El Segundo, California
Made famous by cable TV, this oddball collection of antiques and collectibles is a cut above the rest.
Harbor Springs, Michigan
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Bronx, New York
The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.
Owosso, Michigan
The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Washington, D.C.
The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Jasper, Indiana
One man's vision and a labor of love of many.
Virginia City, Nevada
Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.
Glen Gardner, New Jersey
A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.
Indianapolis, Indiana
This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.
Lyons, Oregon
1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
New York, New York
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
Titusville, Florida
A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.
Point Roberts, Washington
An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.