Bluff, Utah
17 Room Ruin
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
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Bluff, Utah
A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.
Park County, Montana
A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.
Keeseville, New York
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
Burlington, Vermont
Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.
Graniteville, Vermont
Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.
Bend, Oregon
The longest continuous lava tube in Oregon.
Rawlins, Wyoming
This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.
Casper, Wyoming
Devilish landscape, once cinema home to giant alien bugs, now derelict roadside attraction.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Winthrop, Washington
Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
Whistler, British Columbia
The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Florissant, Colorado
The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.
Lakewood, Colorado
Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.
Prospect, Maine
This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.
Leadore, Idaho
These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.
Boise, Idaho
These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.
Salmon, Idaho
An Idaho legend carved out a cave village with his own two hands.
Meagher, Montana
Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.