El Chaltén, Argentina
Cerro Fitz Roy
The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.
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El Chaltén, Argentina
The inspiration for the Patagonia Clothing logo, Cerro Fitz Roy turns pink at sunrise.
Almirante Brown Department, Argentina
A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.
Tafí del Valle Department, Argentina
Mysterious and ancient carved standing stones.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Cushamen, Argentina
With the Wild Bunch hunted almost to extinction and the law closing in on him, Butch Cassidy fled to this remote cabin in Argentina.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
San Rafael, Argentina
This Argentinian hedge maze is an intricate tribute to a famous surrealist author.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.
Leavenworth, Washington
One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Tombstone, Arizona
The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.
Safford, Arizona
One of the world's largest telescopes, stares into the night sky with two huge mirrors.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Wendover, Utah
A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Denio, Nevada
Mine your own precious stones.
Jadwin, Missouri
Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
Clark County, Nevada
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Camdenton, Missouri
European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.