Nehalem, Oregon
Neahkahnie Mountain
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
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Nehalem, Oregon
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Bryce, Utah
Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."
Sisters, Oregon
This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.
Silver Lake, Oregon
A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.
Cañon City, Colorado
The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.
Redding, California
This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.
Leggett, California
This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
San Antonio, Texas
Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.
San Antonio, Texas
An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Saint Hedwig, Texas
A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.
Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
Galveston, Texas
A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.