Lincoln, Illinois
Railsplitter Covered Wagon
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
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Lincoln, Illinois
The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.
Springfield, Illinois
This diner serves Route 66 nostalgia and what it claims is the 'original' hot dog on a stick.
Salinas, California
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
Soledad, California
This historic home has survived wars, drought, and financial woes to become a California landmark.
Jolon, California
This mission, established in 1771, is the most remote of California’s Franciscan missions.
Bakersfield, California
Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.
Bakersfield, California
An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.
Moab, Utah
This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.
Hanksville, Utah
This innovative mill was built for a legendary gold mine that never came to be.
Aspen, Colorado
Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."
Vernal, Utah
Built for a motel, this cartoon dino is now a symbol of the area's paleontological heritage.
Jensen, Utah
This maintained cabin is where Josie Morris, an occasional associate of Butch Cassidy, lived out the last 50 years of her life by herself.
Hanksville, Utah
At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Ojai, California
Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Cañones, New Mexico
A flat-topped butte that makes a constant backdrop for Western art.
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Eagle Nest, New Mexico
Spectacular 300-foot cliffs in a lush mountain canyon.
Raton, New Mexico
This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.
Des Moines, New Mexico
This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.
Cimarron, New Mexico
A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.
Dawson, New Mexico
All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.