Herriman, Utah
Kennecott Utah Copper-Bingham Canyon Mine
Largest man-made excavation on earth!
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Herriman, Utah
Largest man-made excavation on earth!
Lehi, Utah
Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Kensington, Maryland
The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.
Boonsboro, Maryland
Bizarre Cavern.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Sterling, Virginia
These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.
Chantilly, Virginia
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
Winchester, Virginia
Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.
Sterling, Virginia
This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.
Williamsburg, Virginia
America's first public mental health facility.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Salem, West Virginia
This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.
Martinsburg, West Virginia
A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.