Terre Haute, Indiana
Smith Memorial Labyrinth
Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.
Places I've been
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Terre Haute, Indiana
Modeled after the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, this small-town Indiana memorial labyrinth sits half a world away.
Ashmore, Illinois
This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.
Fouke, Arkansas
The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.
Pocahontas, Arkansas
Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.
Terre Haute, Indiana
In an alley not far from where two great highways meet, byways of a very different sort are honored.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Eastland, Texas
Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.
Wasilla, Alaska
Siberian husky that delivered a life-saving antitoxin.
Whittier, Alaska
The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.
Homer, Alaska
Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
North Pole, Alaska
A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.
Fairbanks, Alaska
A sarcastic monument threatens to curse any "idiot" who dares remove it.
Fairbanks, Alaska
11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.
Fairbanks, Alaska
A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.
Anchorage, Alaska
While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.
Chicken, Alaska
A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.
Louisville, Kentucky
One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.
Monterey, California
The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.
Louisville, Kentucky
The largest cemetery in Louisville is the final resting place of Col. Sanders and Muhammad Ali.