Commerce City, Colorado
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Commerce City, Colorado
Happen to come across a dead eagle? Send it to America's official dead eagle warehouse.
Harrison, Nebraska
Meet cowboys and ancient beardogs at this one-of-a-kind crossroads of Western history.
Grover, Colorado
You can stand in three U.S. states at once.
Sterling, Colorado
Snapshots of late 19th and early 20th century Americana, focused on life on the plains, are displayed in this museum.
Houston, Texas
The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Magdalena, New Mexico
Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Tillamook, Oregon
The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.
Mountainair, New Mexico
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Lindrith, New Mexico
A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.
Iceland
This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.
Wichita Falls, Texas
World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Lakewood, Colorado
At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.
Inyo County, California
Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
Monroe, Washington
The tiny church offers succor to travelers driving by, but only eight at a time.
Corbett, Oregon
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
Richland, Washington
Nuclear reactor created the plutonium used on Nagasaki.
Mitchell, Oregon
Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.