Bryce, Utah
Bryce Canyon
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
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Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Avebury, England
The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Orleans, Massachusetts
Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.
Alexandria Bay, New York
A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.
Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
A beautiful example of 18th-century engineering still standing tall.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Lima, Ohio
This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
Haines Falls, New York
A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.
Mount Tremper, New York
The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.
Saugerties, New York
One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.
Hudson, New York
The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.
Boiceville, New York
Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.
New Paltz, New York
This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.
Kerhonkson, New York
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.