Yachats, Oregon
Thor’s Well
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
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Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Florence, Oregon
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
Klamath, California
Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
Penrose, Colorado
The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.
Pueblo, Colorado
This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.
San Bernardino County, California
The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.
Cave Junction, Oregon
This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Hanksville, Utah
This roadside stop between Goblin Valley and the Henry Mountains is the perfect location to view some of the region's natural wonders.
Torrey, Utah
A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Leadville, Colorado
An enthusiastically interactive mining museum that won't let black lung ruin the fun.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Chadron, Nebraska
America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.
Bend, Oregon
The world's last remaining store of its kind.
Taos, New Mexico
A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.
Herriman, Utah
Largest man-made excavation on earth!