Rio Vista, California
Foster's Big Horn
Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.
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Rio Vista, California
Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.
Walnut Grove, California
The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.
Stockton, California
This hidden amusement park is a magical escape for kids and kids-at-heart.
Lodi, California
A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
West Glacier, Montana
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
Silver City, New Mexico
These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Inyo County, California
Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.
Utah
The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.
Three Rivers, California
Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.
Springdale, Utah
The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.
Burney, California
The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.
Rankin Inlet, Nunavut
A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.
Rachel, Nevada
This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.
Petersburg, Virginia
An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.
Nye County, Nevada
A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.