Homestead, Florida
Aerojet Dade Rocket Facility
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
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Homestead, Florida
When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.
West Glacier, Montana
This angular Dwarven tunnel cuts through a mountainside in Glacier National Park.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Garfield County, Utah
Once a menacing challenge for trailblazers, this trail is now the most scenic drive in Utah.
Key Biscayne, Florida
A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Three Rivers, California
These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Rockport, Washington
The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.
Coldfoot, Alaska
The northernmost truck stop in the United States.
Gustavus, Alaska
A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Inyo County, California
Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.
Old Station, California
Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.
Northwest Arctic, Alaska
Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Forks, Washington
A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.
Peninsula, Ohio
A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.
Yosemite National Park, California
A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.
Grand Lake, Colorado
The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
Three Rivers, California
Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.
Utah
The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.