Staten Island, New York
Sleight Family Graveyard
The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.
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Staten Island, New York
The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.
Keene Valley, New York
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
Grover, Colorado
On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.
Kanab, Utah
Not your typical pet cemetery.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.
Bronx, New York
Final resting place of Typhoid Mary.
Newport, Rhode Island
The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Hill City, South Dakota
One of the largest private collections of fossils in the world.
Holbrook, Arizona
This rusted car found in Petrified Forest National Park's Route 66 exhibit may be the most photographed abandoned car in the country.
Castle Dale, Utah
A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.
Addison, Vermont
Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".
Pasadena, California
Pasadena glamour turned government issue.
Rainbow, Oregon
These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
Durango, Colorado
A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.
Maui County, Hawaii
This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Seattle, Washington
Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.
Diomede, Alaska
Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
Big Trees, California
California's longest-running tourist attraction is a stump.
Troy, New York
A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.
Breckenridge, Colorado
A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.
Rockford, Illinois
A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
See prehistoric footprints, plus two complete mastodon skeletons.