San Simon, Arizona
Geronimo Surrender Monument
A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.
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San Simon, Arizona
A stone pillar commemorates the surrender of the extraordinary Apache leader.
Chicago, Illinois
The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.
Gun Bay, Cayman Islands
A massive maritime collision may have led to the myth of a resort island's strange financial status.
West Bay, Cayman Islands
Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.
George Town, Cayman Islands
The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.
Rugby, North Dakota
A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.
Red Cloud, Nebraska
Over 600 acres of idyllic open grassland honor Nebraska’s georgic storyteller.
Lebanon, Kansas
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Tonopah, Nevada
A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."
Chicago, Illinois
A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Commerce, Oklahoma
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
Miami, Oklahoma
When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.
Hidalgo, Texas
A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.
Simpson Bay, Sint Maarten
Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.
Wilmington, Illinois
This historic Illinois "Muffler Man" has been converted from axe-touting lumberjack to rocket-wielding space ace.
Cuba, Missouri
The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.
Casey, Illinois
The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.
Rochester, New York
Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.