Leadville, Colorado
Irish Miners’ Memorial and Cemetery
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
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Leadville, Colorado
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
Mexican Hat, Utah
This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.
Camp Verde, Arizona
This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.
Page, Arizona
This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.
Toronto, Ontario
Known as "Toronto's Flatiron."
Laramie, Wyoming
It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.
Pelham, Tennessee
An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.
Sedona, Arizona
The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.
Sedona, Arizona
Although now a decaying ruin, this stone cabin's history includes several notable figures.
Monticello, Utah
One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.
Page, Arizona
These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.
Akron, Ohio
An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.
Kent, Ohio
This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.
Monticello, Utah
This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.
Laramie, Wyoming
The high point on the 16th president's eponymous roadway is marked by a massive version of his head.
Florence, Italy
This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.
Buford, Wyoming
A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.
Buford, Wyoming
Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Chichen Itza, Mexico
No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.
Buford, Wyoming
One of the smallest towns in the United States.
Sedona, Arizona
A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.