Florence, Oregon
Sea Lion Caves
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
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Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Blackfoot, Idaho
This museum glorifies the humble potato.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
Alexandria, Egypt
An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.
Nagoa Ash Shatb, Egypt
One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.
Aswan, Egypt
The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.
Aksum, Ethiopia
Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.
Lalibela, Ethiopia
An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.
Bemidji, Minnesota
These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.
Falcon Heights, Minnesota
This taxidermic smorgasbord was co-created by an artist poached from the Museum of Natural History.
Alexandria, Minnesota
14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.
Darwin, Minnesota
17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.