Mackinac County, Michigan
The Mackinac Bridge
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
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Mackinac County, Michigan
The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.
Midland, Michigan
There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.
Midland, Michigan
This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.
Genoa, Nevada
Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.
Truckee, California
Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.
Sacramento, California
Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
The world's largest pin (or tack) is located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at the Transit Authority of Central Kentucky (TACK) headquarters.
Radcliff, Kentucky
This world record holding pocketknife is so large that it has to be operated by a crane.
Louisville, Kentucky
The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Baltimore, Maryland
Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.
Baltimore, Maryland
This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Lynchburg, Tennessee
All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Lead, South Dakota
Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Wall, South Dakota
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
New York, New York
Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.
New York, New York
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Annapolis, Maryland
Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.