Wendover, Utah
Metaphor: The Tree of Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Wendover, Utah
A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.
Green River, Utah
This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.
Green River, Utah
A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.
Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Moab, Utah
Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.
Lorton, Virginia
The former home of the man whose radical ideas changed the nation.
Lorton, Virginia
This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."
Anchorage, Alaska
Considered by many to be one of the most dangerous highways in Alaska.
Bedford, Virginia
This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.
Thurmont, Maryland
Washed out by the Johnstown Flood in 1889, the surviving portion of the original two-span bridge now resides at Fishing Creek.
Paris, France
France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.
Washington, D.C.
Home to items never before seen by the public.
Washington, D.C.
A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.
Washington, D.C.
The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.
Paris, France
A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
One of Gettysburg’s least visited battlefield memorials is off the beaten path, but worth a visit.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A series of three shiny letters mark the boundary of an old refuge for those being pursued by debt collectors.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Scotland's oldest purpose-built concert hall houses an incredible collection of ornate, centuries-old keyboards.
Edinburgh, Scotland
A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.