Cañon City, Colorado
Royal Gorge Bridge
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
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Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Memphis, Tennessee
The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Keeseville, New York
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Jackson, Tennessee
This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.
Memphis, Tennessee
This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.
Portland, Oregon
This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.
Thurmont, Maryland
A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Alexandria, Virginia
America's first federal monument.
Monterey, California
Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.
Augsburg, Germany
In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.
Chiusdino, Italy
These gutted monastery ruins still stand proudly in the middle of the Italian countryside.
Nye County, Nevada
The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
London, England
This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.