Custer, South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
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Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Murrells Inlet, South Carolina
The uniquely-designed winter home and sculpture studio of Anna and Archer Huntington.
Gaffney, South Carolina
The record holder for the world’s largest peach.
Hamer, South Carolina
I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Portland, Oregon
The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!
Cannon Beach, Oregon
This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.
Florence, Oregon
The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.
Ashland, Oregon
Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.
Portland, Oregon
10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.
Gold Hill, Oregon
A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Government Camp, Oregon
You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Corbett, Oregon
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.