Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The American Geographical Society Library
Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Seattle, Washington
What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!
Point Roberts, Washington
An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.
Ashford, Washington
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
Granite Falls, Washington
Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.
Cougar, Washington
The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.
Alexandria, Virginia
America's first federal monument.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Duffield, Virginia
A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.
Derby, Vermont
This unusual building straddles two countries.
Williamstown, Vermont
The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.
Sandy, Utah
Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.
Spanish Fork, Utah
Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.
Monroe, Utah
One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.
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.
Moab, Utah
A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.
Carbon County, Utah
Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.
Delta, Utah
Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.
Richfield, Utah
One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.