Portland, Oregon
Wilhelm’s Portland Memorial Funeral Home
The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.
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Portland, Oregon
The largest mausoleum on the West Coast, with over seven miles of corridors, perched on a riverside bluff.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This century-old museum showcases New Mexico’s history through arts and crafts.
Augusta, Georgia
An authentic recreation of a 19th-century museum for "working class folks."
Zelienople, Pennsylvania
The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.
Morro Bay, California
A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.
San Bernardino County, California
An improbable set of attractive limestone caverns forms the centerpiece of Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, in the heart of the Mojave Desert.
Valley Falls, Oregon
Oregon's only closed-basin hypersaline lake, an important stopover for migrating waterfowl, is in danger of drying up completely.
Elgin, Illinois
The oldest purpose built museum in Illinois, home to original Victorian taxidermy.
Wellfleet, Massachusetts
The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.
Washington, D.C.
This tiny, one-acre cemetery serves as a reminder of when the Civil War got close to the nation’s capitol.
Mono City, California
This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.
Everett, Washington
Three hangars filled with meticulously restored aircraft and armored vehicles.
Adaven, Nevada
A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.
Marshall, Missouri
This interactive museum preserves the big aviation history of this small Missouri town
Bruneau, Idaho
The "Grand Canyon of Southwestern Idaho" makes a spectacular gash across the flat Snake River plain.
Niles, Michigan
A cabinet of funerary art and death culture hidden inside an oddities shop.
Robbinsville, New Jersey
This Hindu temple in suburban New Jersey is the largest in the United States and one of the largest in the world.
Leadville, Colorado
Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.
San Diego, California
The world’s oldest active sailing ship.
Maysville, Colorado
This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.
Laughlin, Nevada
The gambling entrepreneur who built a city was also an avid collector of classic cars.
Herndon, Virginia
Across from a hotel parking lot, a Confederate spy rests under a large tombstone with her Union Veteran husband behind a copse of trees in a small, well-maintained cemetery.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
A gorgeous gem on the ocean.