Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Isa Lake
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.
Baltimore, Maryland
Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.
Abiquiu, New Mexico
Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.
Nelson, Nevada
A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.
Mount Clemens, Michigan
A museum dedicated to the dead and the tools used to usher them into the afterlife.
Savannah, Georgia
This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.
Madison, Wisconsin
The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.
Red Feather Lakes, Colorado
One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.
South San Francisco, California
A large instrument played by the wind.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.
Key Largo, Florida
An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.
Waldoboro, Maine
Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Mount Carroll, Illinois
Former hotel turned into haunted playground.
Detroit, Michigan
One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.
Millvale, Pennsylvania
An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.
Shingleton, Michigan
This lone tree and dramatic sandstone outcropping are so beloved by Michiganders they can be found on one of the state’s coins.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Detroit, Michigan
To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.
Tampa, Florida
One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.
Golden, Colorado
An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.
Yosemite National Park, California
The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.
Hardwick, New Jersey
This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.