Mesa, Arizona
Organ Stop Pizza
Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.
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Mesa, Arizona
Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.
Ehrenberg, Arizona
The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.
Quartzsite, Arizona
This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.
Bainbridge Island, Washington
This 18-foot-tall public art installation is another of sculptor Thomas Dambo's trolls.
Seattle, Washington
Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.
Seattle, Washington
From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
Seattle, Washington
A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.
Seattle, Washington
The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.
Seattle, Washington
A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.
Bowman, North Dakota
This simple badlands butte is the highest point in North Dakota and may be the only high point to charge admission.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
The oldest extant wooden jail in South Dakota and possibly the United States.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Lead, South Dakota
Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Deadwood, South Dakota
Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.
Spearfish, South Dakota
This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”
Philip, South Dakota
A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
West Mineral, Kansas
The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Helen, Georgia
This lovely burial mound is actually a replica that was installed after archeologists excavated the original.