White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Congressional Fallout Shelter at the Greenbrier Resort
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
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White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.
Moab, Utah
This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Santa Cruz, Aruba
The Ayo Rock Formations stand out on the island of Aruba as a unique arrangement of giant boulders with interesting crawl spaces to explore.
Noord, Aruba
The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.
Panama City, Panama
This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.
Alajuela, Costa Rica
A park that allows you to get up close and personal with one of the world's largest open volcanic craters.
Monteverde, Costa Rica
This wildlife refuge is home to more than 200 species of birds, as well as monkeys, lizards, and other wildlife.
La Fortuna, Costa Rica
The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.
New York, New York
This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.
Weeki Wachee, Florida
Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.
Evergreen, Colorado
The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Boulder, Colorado
This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.
George Town, Cayman Islands
The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.
Fort Myers, Florida
One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.
Miami, Florida
Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Arlington, Virginia
At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.
McLean, Virginia
The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.