West Liberty, Ohio
Ohio Caverns
These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."
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West Liberty, Ohio
These sub-farmland caves are home to a majestic stalactite known as the "Crystal King."
Logan, Ohio
Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Fairfax, Virginia
Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.
Arlington, Virginia
Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Saltville, Virginia
This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.
Middletown, Connecticut
A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.
Meriden, Connecticut
Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.
Cape May, New Jersey
The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.
Cape May, New Jersey
World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.
Hammonton, New Jersey
In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.
Petersburg, New York
This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.
Springfield, Massachusetts
The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.
Glen Cove, New York
The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.
Lusby, Maryland
Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.
Brookfield, Illinois
It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.