Apollo Beach, Florida
Big Bend Power Plant Manatee Viewing Area
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Apollo Beach, Florida
Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.
Seffner, Florida
An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Georgia's first brewery is also one of its oldest surviving buildings.
Washington, D.C.
The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Delaware, Ohio
A gas station has taken the place of the home of the 19th American President.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.
Clarksville, Indiana
The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Oolitic, Indiana
The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Mitchell, South Dakota
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
The highest point in Montana is as rugged and singular as the state itself.