New York, New York
Keith Haring’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ Bathroom Mural
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
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New York, New York
A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.
New York, New York
Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.
Denver, Colorado
A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.
Denver, Colorado
This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.
New York, New York
Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.
New York, New York
Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.
New York, New York
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
New York, New York
A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.
New York, New York
The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.
St. Augustine, Florida
The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.
Saint Simons Island, Georgia
The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Baker, Nevada
A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Sweetwater, Tennessee
Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Dayton, Tennessee
The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.
Pikeville, Tennessee
Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.
Sparta, Tennessee
These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.
Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.