An independent bookstore and press with a large collection of local and English-language literature.

A public library display of fossils from the ice age.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

History says that America’s first English industrial manufacture began here with a “tryal of glasse.”

An oft-overlooked, magically musical monolith that stands majestically between Arlington Cemetery and the Iwo Jima Memorial.

The last remaining location of a drive-up hot dog stand named after a local pool shark.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

One of the oldest train stations still standing in Virginia played a vital role during the Civil War.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

The hallowed ground of one of the worst atrocities in United States history.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.