Des Moines, Iowa
West End Architectural Salvage
Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.
Places I've been
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Des Moines, Iowa
Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.
Dyersville, Iowa
A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.
Luwingu, Zambia
A small but beautiful waterfall hidden away in the north of Zambia.
Montrose, Colorado
A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.
Syracuse, Utah
The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Chinle, Arizona
Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Bowie, Arizona
The former home of the army detachment that captured Geronimo.
Guymon, Oklahoma
Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?
Bartlesville, Oklahoma
An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
Davis, Oklahoma
What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Gulf Shores, Alabama
This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques
New Orleans, Louisiana
This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.
Paga, Ghana
The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.