Silver Lake, Oregon
Crack in the Ground
A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.
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Silver Lake, Oregon
A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.
Portland, Oregon
One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Lexington, Oregon
Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
Ekalaka, Montana
This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.
Great Falls, Montana
"Polynesia on the Plains."
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Frederick, Maryland
A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Boonsboro, Maryland
Bizarre Cavern.
La Crosse, Kansas
A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.
Abilene, Kansas
A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.
Minneapolis, Kansas
A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.
Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Oakley, Kansas
One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Madrid, Iowa
A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.
Fortville, Indiana
The bespectacled, cocktail-sipping pachyderm is a strange but fitting liquor store mascot.
Center Point, Indiana
Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!
South Bend, Indiana
The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.
South Bend, Indiana
This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.