Sandusky, Ohio
Plum Brook Station (Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility)
This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.
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Sandusky, Ohio
This NASA test station is home to some of the world’s largest and most powerful space environment simulation facilities.
Paddys River, Australia
It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
Copper Harbor, Michigan
The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.
Huntsville, Alabama
A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Homestead, Florida
Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Homestead, Florida
The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.
Homestead, Florida
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Baker, Nevada
This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.
Homestead, Florida
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Garfield County, Utah
Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Rockport, Washington
The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.
Coldfoot, Alaska
The northernmost truck stop in the United States.
Gustavus, Alaska
A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Inyo County, California
Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.
Old Station, California
Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
Peninsula, Ohio
A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.