Nederland, Colorado
Carousel of Happiness
Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Nederland, Colorado
Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.
Cave Junction, Oregon
A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.
Kelleys Island, Ohio
These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.
Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.
Tecopa, California
This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.
Waukegan, Illinois
A river with some unusual, and occasionally dangerous, habits.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Cameron, Montana
A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.
Forks, Washington
One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.
Seattle, Washington
Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.
Riverton, West Virginia
Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Paranormal activity on the great lakes.
Norfolk, Virginia
A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Cañon City, Colorado
This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.
Cleveland, Ohio
A history of tragedy and a pile of eerie stories have contributed to this house's consistent ranking as one of the most haunted places in Ohio.
Pomfret, Connecticut
A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.
Winslow, Arizona
This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Garretson, South Dakota
The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.
Fairbanks, Alaska
This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.
Henrieville, Utah
This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.