Rapid City, South Dakota
Firehouse Brewing Co.
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
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Rapid City, South Dakota
South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.
Madrid, New Mexico
Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.
Mogollon, New Mexico
Explore a misty river canyon from a metal bridge system.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.
Corinne, Utah
Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.
Corinne, Utah
This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.
Halchita, Utah
The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.
Twentynine Palms, California
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Three Rivers, California
A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Gaspé, Québec
When World War II came to Canada, Fort Péninsule was part of the first line of defense for Allied shipping convoys.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Maitland, Nova Scotia
The highest tides in the world come in and out here twice a day, allowing you to essentially walk along the ocean floor.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.