Walcott, Iowa
Iowa 80 Truck Stop
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
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Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Leavittsburg, Ohio
A grandiose title could not save this mercantile community from obscurity.
Warren, Ohio
This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.
Michigan City, Indiana
A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.
New York, New York
A crumbling staircase in upper Manhattan is all that remains of one of the most important sites in sports history.
Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.
Hope, New Jersey
Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.
Vik, Iceland
Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.
Iceland
Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.
Grindavík, Iceland
Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant
Heimaey, Iceland
Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.
Forks, Washington
This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.
Christchurch, New Zealand
This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
Dowth, Ireland
The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.
Crestone, Colorado
Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.
Chicago, Illinois
To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.
Chicago, Illinois
No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.
Chicago, Illinois
All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.
Chicago, Illinois
This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.