Los Angeles, California
Declaration Sculpture
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
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Los Angeles, California
60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.
Grass Valley, California
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."
Inyo County, California
This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.
McKittrick, California
Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.
Bodfish, California
One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland
One of a series of sculptures making a statement about sea-level rise in the United Kingdom.
Stirling, Scotland
These formal gardens were designed to be admired from the vantage point of the castle.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Wallace, Idaho
This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Wilmington, Delaware
A drab two-story office space in Delaware is a hidden tax haven for Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and over half the Fortune 500 companies.
West Glacier, Montana
Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.
Ogema, Wisconsin
The highest point in Wisconsin is capped by two towers that are not as mythic as Tolkien's but provide much better views.
Keystone, South Dakota
The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."
Lancaster, New Hampshire
The summer estate of John Weeks offers dazzling views and a moose captured by Theodore Roosevelt.
Twisp, Washington
Gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc were once extracted at this abandoned mine near Lookout Mountain.
Dublin, Ireland
An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.
Stonington, Connecticut
How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?
Boyds, Maryland
The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.
New York, New York
If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.
Atlanta, Georgia
Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.
Dedham, Massachusetts
This building is more than 250 years old and was built in one of the first towns settled in Massachusetts.
San Francisco, California
This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.
San Francisco, California
Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.