Brooklyn, New York
The Bone Museum
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
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Brooklyn, New York
This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.
Morgan City, Louisiana
The only place in the world where the general public can walk aboard an authentic offshore drilling rig.
Chinle, Arizona
Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Norfolk, Virginia
A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Metal dinosaurs lurk in a sculpture garden on the outskirts of a popular resort town.
Raeford, North Carolina
The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.
Bishopville, South Carolina
One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Jensen, Utah
Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.
Bedrock, Colorado
A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Orderville, Utah
Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.
Corinne, Utah
An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.
Cadiz, California
Anyone can play paleontologist at this quarry that has Cambrian fossils galore.
Santa Barbara, California
This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.
Carpinteria, California
Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.
Fresno, California
An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.
Oxnard, California
Rusty pieces of metal jutting out of a breakwater are all that's visible of the 12,500-ton ocean liner that capsized just off the beach.
Camarillo, California
Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.