Geocaching: Virtual Caches and Earthcaches

40 Places

Shattuck, Oklahoma

Shattuck Windmill Museum

Over 50 historic windmills whir away at this outdoor museum.

Allison

Added by Allison

Locust Grove, Virginia

Grave of Stonewall Jackson's Arm

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Jökulsárlón

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Dampo

Haleyville, Alabama

Alabama’s Natural Bridge

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Added by heavychevy13

Pikeville, Tennessee

Fall Creek Falls State Park

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Added by Myrandis

Heavener, Oklahoma

Heavener Runestone

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Allison

Added by Allison

Santa Rosa, New Mexico

Santa Rosa Blue Hole

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Added by jamienfruita

Carlsbad, New Mexico

Carlsbad Caverns

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Kenton, Oklahoma

Black Mesa

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Dripping Springs, Texas

Hamilton Pool

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

The Colony, Texas

Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

KimMurrayMcD

Added by KimMurrayMcD

Cache, Oklahoma

Holy City of the Wichitas

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a century-old passion play.

Lawton, Oklahoma

Fort Sill

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

Allison

Added by Allison

Key West, Florida

Southernmost Point of the Continental U.S.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Mark Casey

Added by Mark Casey

Key West, Florida

Dry Tortugas

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

anhie

Abiquiu, New Mexico

Echo Amphitheater

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

Added by owenkatherine7216

Hueco Tanks

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Newport News, Virginia

The Mariner's Museum and Park

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

Arlington, Virginia

The Graves of Robert E. Lee's Garden

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Added by evyatarguttman

Vienna, Virginia

Foxstone Park Bridge

A double agent hid information for the Soviet Union beneath this bridge for more than 20 years.

WhiskeyBristles

Added by WhiskeyBristles

Upheaval Dome

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Added by zackofalltrades

Monticello, Utah

Church Rock

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Added by zackofalltrades

Gainesville, Florida

University of Florida Bat Houses

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Mom0ja

Added by Mom0ja

DeFuniak Springs, Florida

Britton Hill

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Enterprise, Alabama

Boll Weevil Monument

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Added by cornutt

Sparta, Tennessee

Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

JBHewlett

Added by JBHewlett

Cape Charles, Virginia

Kiptopeke's Concrete Fleet

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Added by mattflowers

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Horseshoe Curve

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

thomasharper

Added by thomasharper

Barnsdall, Oklahoma

Barnsdall Main Street Oil Well

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

Added by retroalli

Shiprock, New Mexico

Shiprock

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

amboy

Arlington, Virginia

Abingdon Plantation Ruins

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo Observatory

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Trevor

Added by Trevor

Arlington, Virginia

Gravelly Point Park

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Ponca City, Oklahoma

Pioneer Woman Statue

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

Added by gpatterson84

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Grave of Elmer McCurdy

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

littlebrumble

Added by littlebrumble

Meridian, Mississippi

Grave of Kelly Mitchell

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

Added by philleykevin

South West City, Missouri

AR-MO-OK Tri-State Marker

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

Added by gradec

Washington, D.C.

Kilroy Was Here

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Elliot Carter

Added by Elliot Carter

Noble, Oklahoma

Timberlake Rose Rock Museum

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

shatomica

Added by shatomica

Monticello, Utah

Newspaper Rock

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Tony Dunnell

Added by Tony Dunnell

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