Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Grand Prismatic Spring
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
DeFuniak Springs, Florida
The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Foley, Alabama
Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.
Washington, D.C.
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
Homewood, Alabama
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.
Panama City Beach, Florida
A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.
Paris, France
An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.
Lima, Peru
The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.
Florence, Italy
This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.
Claiborne County, Mississippi
An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.
Mount Airy, North Carolina
This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.
Washington, D.C.
Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.
Wustermark, Germany
The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.
London, England
This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.
Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Norton, Kansas
A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.
Pompeii, Italy
The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.
Plains, Georgia
This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
London, England
A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.
Torun, Poland
Once a giant gingerbread factory, this space now hosts exhibits and workshops on the historic treat.