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40.3824, -87.9510
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37.6177, -89.2088
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Duluth, Minnesota
Uncle Harvey's Mausoleum
The watery grave of an impractical idea.
46.7846, -92.0920
Salinas, California
Fort Ord
Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.
36.6266, -121.6914
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Stone Arch Bridge
The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.
44.9845, -93.2555
Portland, Oregon
Chocolate Waterfall
One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.
45.5367, -122.4764
Corbett, Oregon
Multnomah Falls
A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.
45.5762, -122.1158
Corbett, Oregon
Vista House at Crown Point
This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.
45.5396, -122.2443
Cannon Beach, Oregon
Haystack Rock
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
45.9031, -123.9610
Cougar, Washington
The Ape Cave
The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.
46.1097, -122.2114
Seattle, Washington
Fremont Bridge
From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.
47.6476, -122.3498
West Glacier, Montana
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.
48.6950, -113.8169
Spring Green, Wisconsin
House on the Rock
A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.
43.0970, -90.1349
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Historic Stasiu's Urinals
A palatial art deco restroom.
45.0134, -93.2631
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alpine Asphalt's Wall of Skis
A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.
45.0075, -93.2529
Seattle, Washington
Bettie Page House
What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!
47.6714, -122.3209
Seattle, Washington
Lenin Statue of Fremont
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
47.6515, -122.3513
Malibu, California
California Coastal Records Project
View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.
34.0128, -118.7929
San Francisco, California
Treasure Island
A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.
37.8160, -122.3713
Dripping Springs, Texas
Hamilton Pool
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
30.3423, -98.1271
Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
30.2617, -97.7452
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The Wreck of the E.C. Waters
No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.
44.5152, -110.3852
Florence, Oregon
Sea Lion Caves
Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.
44.1214, -124.1256
New Salem, North Dakota
Salem Sue
The world's largest Holstein cow.
46.8450, -101.4113
Del Monte Forest, California
Ghost Trees of Pescadero Point
Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.
36.5608, -121.9516
Los Angeles, California
Watts Towers
America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.
33.9389, -118.2419
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