Savannah, Georgia
The Pirates' House
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
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Savannah, Georgia
This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
Minnesota
When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.
Inyo County, California
A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.
Detroit, Michigan
This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.
Orange, Connecticut
The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.
New York, New York
This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.
El Paso, Texas
Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
Alexandria, Virginia
This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.
Bolinas, California
This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.
Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Twentynine Palms, California
Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A secret fresh water spring for animals and humans alike hidden along the most famous road in the United States.
Caliente, Nevada
The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.
Wilmington, North Carolina
An exotic reptile facility showcasing some of the rarest, most venomous snakes in the world.
Green River, Utah
This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Carthage, Missouri
This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.
Waskesiu Lake, Saskatchewan
Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.
White Pine County, Nevada
A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.
Murdo, South Dakota
The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.
Ruth, Nevada
Rich red almandine gemstones are waiting inside the volcanic rock strewn across this eastern Nevada hillside.
St. Louis, Missouri
The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.