Columbus, Ohio
Columbus Park of Roses
An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.
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Columbus, Ohio
An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.
Centerville, Indiana
A giant lumpy candle serves as a beacon for this highly scented pit stop.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Holbrook, Arizona
For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.
Mesa, Arizona
These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.
Phoenix, Arizona
The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.
Sedona, Arizona
The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.
Chandler, Arizona
Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.
Phoenix, Arizona
This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.
Hurricane, Utah
A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Supai, Arizona
This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.
Corvallis, Oregon
Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Guthrie, Oklahoma
Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
One of the largest Masonic temples in the world, created at the height of the oil boom in ostentatious style.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Los Angeles, California
This centerpiece of the Hollywood & Highland shopping center is a recreation of a long-lost movie set.
Berkeley, California
The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.
Los Angeles, California
Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.
Berkeley, California
Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.