Burlington, Iowa
Snake Alley
While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Burlington, Iowa
While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.
Niles, Illinois
Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.
Wilmette, Illinois
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Willow Springs, Illinois
The final resting place of the world's first nuclear reactor.
Chicago, Illinois
An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Chicago, Illinois
A Bibliophile's Dream.
Atchison, Kansas
The first home of the doomed aviator Amelia Earhart.
Denver, Colorado
Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.
Denver, Colorado
A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Williams, Minnesota
This Minnesota-shaped forest is actually located in the state it is shaped like.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
From burial ground bocce ball court.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
Bayard, Nebraska
This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.
Alexandria, Minnesota
14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Sundance, Wyoming
This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.
Hot Springs, South Dakota
This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.
Garretson, South Dakota
The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.