New York, New York
Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
Places I've been
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New York, New York
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
New York, New York
There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...
New York, New York
One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.
New York, New York
A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Aztec, New Mexico
The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.
Death Valley, California
Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.
Florence, Italy
A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.
Rome, Italy
An ancient Egyptian obelisk is now used to commemorate fallen Italian soldiers.
Venice, Italy
This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.
Amesbury, England
Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world
Bath, England
This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.
Saint George's, Grenada
A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.
Schiphol, Netherlands
It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
Shawnee, Oklahoma
Though it's no longer a functioning train depot, this castle-like structure is an important piece of Oklahoma history.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
In Oklahoma City's Bricktown, there's a street that don't use jelly.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.
Norman, Oklahoma
A small section of native wilderness on a university campus
Mountainair, New Mexico
The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.