Walcott, Iowa
Iowa 80 Truck Stop
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
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Walcott, Iowa
The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.
Dubuque, Iowa
For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.
Council Bluffs, Iowa
The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.
Eldon, Iowa
Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.
Riverside, Iowa
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Clear Lake, Iowa
A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.
Villisca, Iowa
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
Dubois, Idaho
This giant tower beacon was a key navigation tool for pilots delivering mail amid the night skies.
Soda Springs, Idaho
Home to a timed geyser created by complete accident.
Post Falls, Idaho
A wild west land agreement was etched right onto this historic Idaho stone.
Boise, Idaho
Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.
Nampa, Idaho
A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.
Coolin, Idaho
Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.
Sun Valley, Idaho
Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.
Boise, Idaho
These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Captain Cook, Hawaii
A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.
Honolulu, Hawaii
A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.
Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii
The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hana, Hawaii
The famous aviator's final resting place is a study in natural beauty.