Texas City, Texas
Texas City Memorial
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
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Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
San Anselmo, California
George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.
Glendive, Montana
The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.
Pescadero, California
Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.
White Pine County, Nevada
These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
San Diego, California
This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.
Las Vegas, Nevada
This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.
Carthage, Missouri
An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.
Linville, North Carolina
You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.
Palm Springs, California
Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.
California
Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.
Marion, Ohio
This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.
Pueblo, Colorado
This three-mile concrete levee in Pueblo, Colorado was transformed into the world’s longest painting.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.
San Francisco, California
This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.
Rhinebeck, New York
The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.
Palm Springs, California
This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.
Golconda, Nevada
A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Marietta, Georgia
An elegant Georgian cemetery best known for the grave of the little girl whose murder on Christmas Day remains unsolved.
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Rushing water plunges over a 100-foot drop created by an ancient lava flow at this majestic waterfall.