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This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

The first motion picture theater in southern Utah, reimagined and renovated as an arts hub.

This balancing rock is one of Utah's most unusual geological formations.

If it wasn’t for an innovative use of quilts during a crisis, the city of Panguitch might not exist today.

This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Dubbed the "Blade Runner dragon," this buzzing neon sign is a beloved local icon.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A pair of gargoyles peer into unsuspecting passengers at Denver’s conspiracy-packed airport.