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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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua Ghost Town
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Hidalgo, Texas
'World's Largest Killer Bee'
A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Louisiana Old State Capitol
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Mike the Tiger
The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.
Galveston, Texas
Bishop's Palace
This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.
Homestead, Florida
Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle
A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.
Homestead, Florida
Robert Is Here
The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Blue Hole
The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.
Key West, Florida
The Conch Republic
"We Seceded Where Others Failed."
Key West, Florida
African Cemetery at Higgs Beach
Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.
Key West, Florida
Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Key West, Florida
Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum
The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.
Key West, Florida
Key West High Heel Shoe Drop
Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.
Key West, Florida
The Key West Museum of Art & History at the Custom House
A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.
Key West, Florida
Key West Historic Memorial Sculpture Garden
Recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the garden opened in September 1997 to celebrate the men and women who have had the greatest impact on Key West.
Key West, Florida
Pan Am's First Office
The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.
Key West, Florida
U.S. Route 1 Mile 0 Sign
The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.
Key West, Florida
Key West Cemetery
The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.
Meadville, Pennsylvania
PennDOT Road Sign Sculpture Garden
The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.
Erie, Pennsylvania
Presque Isle State Park
Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).
Jamestown, New York
National Comedy Center
The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.
Charlevoix, Michigan
Earl Young Mushroom Houses
Unique Michigan homes look like something out of Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings."
Harbor Springs, Michigan
Petoskey State Park
A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.
