Flagstaff, Arizona
Humphreys Peak
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.
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Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.
Cave Creek, Arizona
The last such cabin in Arizona is a rare remnant of a bygone era of medical treatment.
Black Canyon City, Arizona
Every year, festive decorations appear on this juniper tree located in the median strip of a busy highway.
Prescott, Arizona
A maze-like landscape of globular rocks surrounding two Arizona lakes.
Prescott, Arizona
This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.
Toronto, Ontario
This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Louisville, Kentucky
The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
An old railroad crossing that’s been converted into a pedestrian bridge.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Riverside, Ohio
Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.
Dayton, Ohio
This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.
Skopje, North Macedonia
These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.
Oteshevo, North Macedonia
It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.
Athens, Greece
Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
San Diego, California
The world’s oldest active sailing ship.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
An epic statue dedicated to the memory of the 9th and 10th Cavalry Regiments of the U.S. Army
Williamsburg, Virginia
Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.