Bloomington, Minnesota
The Mall of America
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Cimarron, New Mexico
A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.
Dawson, New Mexico
All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A burnt-out motel with priceless Native American artwork in the basement, redeveloped into apartments.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Butte, Montana
One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.
Great Falls, Montana
The shortest river in America flows for just 201 feet.
Anaconda, Montana
A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!
Anaconda, Montana
This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.
Lincoln, Montana
A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.
Three Forks, Montana
These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.
Butte, Montana
High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.
Great Falls, Montana
"Polynesia on the Plains."
Butte, Montana
The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.
Arlee, Montana
This giant meditative chakra sits peacefully in the Flathead Valley of western Montana.
Cisco, Utah
Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.