Winslow, Arizona
Meteor Crater
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
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Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Apache Junction, Arizona
This collection of Wild West movie memorabilia also claims to hold some secrets of the Lost Dutchman's mine.
Coolidge, Arizona
Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.
Tombstone, Arizona
A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.
Benson, Arizona
Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Taylors Falls, Minnesota
A stone face watches over the river.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.
San Bernardino, California
The largest dune field in the Mojave offers a chance of hearing the 'singing sands.'
Daggett, California
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.
San Bernardino, California
Where NASA's satellites and rovers phone home.
Baker, California
This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.
San Bernardino, California
A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.
Atlanta, Georgia
The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Birmingham, Alabama
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Namibia
Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.
Field, British Columbia
Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!
Improvement District No. 12, Alberta
Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.
Alberta
A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.
Los Angeles, California
The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.