Greensburg, Kansas
The Big Well
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
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Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Kingman, Kansas
This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.
Liberal, Kansas
A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.
Harvard, Nebraska
The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.
Panguitch, Utah
If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.
Oakley, Utah
What's a diner from the 1939 World's Fair doing in a remote Utah mountain town?
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.
Park City, Utah
The largest wildlife crossing in Utah allows local fauna to safely traverse the six-lane Interstate 80 at Parleys Canyon.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Hanksville, Utah
At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Tempe, Arizona
A colorful, century-old cemetery of the Yaqui Indian Tribe hidden amid the suburban sprawl of Tempe, Arizona.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Mesa, Arizona
Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.
Florence, Italy
Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.
Florence, Italy
The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.
Florence, Italy
The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.
Brno, Czechia
Mummified monks and the accidentally interred, in a 17th-century crypt.
Lucca, Italy
This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Lucca, Italy
Fortified medieval tower house with lovely roof garden.
Lucca, Italy
The naturally mummified body of a peasant girl saint.