Seattle, Washington
Gum Wall
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Places I've been
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Seattle, Washington
A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.
Seattle, Washington
A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.
Jerome, Arizona
Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.
Jerome, Arizona
On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Yavapai County, Arizona
Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Hartford, Connecticut
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
Hartford, Connecticut
An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.
Hartford, Connecticut
The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.
Washington, D.C.
Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.
Washington, D.C.
A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.
Washington, D.C.
The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.
Washington, D.C.
The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.
Washington, D.C.
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Washington, D.C.
This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.
Washington, D.C.
A historic ruin just 20 feet away from a busy highway onramp.
Celebration, Florida
Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.