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A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A 400-year-old church covered floor to ceiling in ex-voto offerings from the faithful.

This tombstone marks the spot where the legendary British spy met his end.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

A 130-year-old urinal is the oldest of Stockholm and perhaps all of Sweden.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

A small-town limestone memorial to a local cartoonist and to Porky Pig, his most famous subject.

This roadside prairie Statue of Liberty replica is one of the foremost examples of the Boy Scouts of America's "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" campaign.

A standalone wonder amid the prairie badlands of southeastern Alberta.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.