Bedford, Indiana
Bluespring Caverns
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
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Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Cave Junction, Oregon
Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.
Brooklyn, New York
Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.
Vernal, Utah
Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.
Issaquah, Washington
A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Los Angeles, California
After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
Chicago, Illinois
The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Napa, California
The largest drain hole in the world.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Port Orchard, Washington
A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.
Älvdalen S, Sweden
The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.