Montrose, Colorado
Museum of the Mountain West
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
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Montrose, Colorado
An eclectic collection of artifacts from the Wild West is preserved in a remote fictional pioneer town.
Carlsbad, California
Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.
Ashford, Washington
The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Kaycee, Wyoming
The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.
Devils Tower, Wyoming
The first declared National Monument in the United States.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Burnsville, North Carolina
The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Amsterdam, New York
This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.
Elizabeth, New Jersey
Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.
Staten Island, New York
A town trapped in time - 1958 to be exact.
Staten Island, New York
One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.
Bridgewater, New Jersey
American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.
Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.
Lakehurst, New Jersey
The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.
Highlands, New Jersey
These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.
Highlands, New Jersey
Rusting away on the edge of New Jersey are the remains of a Cold War missile launch site.