Malta, Montana
Great Plains Dinosaur Museum
This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.
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Malta, Montana
This small museum is home to some of the oldest and best-preserved dinosaur specimens found in Montana.
Marietta, Pennsylvania
An industrial waste tourist attraction.
Schenectady, New York
This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.
Paradise, Michigan
These dramatic cola-colored falls have appeared in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and a song by Sufjan Stevens.
El Mirage, California
Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.
Pasadena, California
One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.
Coulee City, Washington
This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.
Plano, Texas
This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.
Skagway, Alaska
A tiny wilderness cemetery commemorates the deadliest episode of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Brooklyn, New York
A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.
Sutter, California
Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.
Gainesville, Florida
This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
Fillmore, California
An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.
New Boston, New Hampshire
This young woman's tombstone names her murderer, who is buried in the same cemetery.
Reno, Nevada
This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.
Utuado, Puerto Rico
Drift through underground caves on a tube.
Paradise, Texas
In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.
San Diego, California
A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.
Granville, New York
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.
Thermopolis, Wyoming
The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.
Green Bay, Wisconsin
The secluded resting place of a local historical figure who perished during the sinking of the Titanic.