Holland, Michigan
Windmill Island Gardens
The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.
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Holland, Michigan
The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.
Holland, Michigan
Largest tulip festival in America, includes fireworks, a parade, and a carnival.
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.
Glen Arbor Township, Michigan
This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.
Big Pine Key, Florida
Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.
Riverview, Florida
The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Yo, Adrian!
New Orleans, Louisiana
A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.
Savannah, Georgia
One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Brooklyn, New York
One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Washington, D.C.
A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.
Teec Nos Pos, Utah
The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.
Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Suches, Georgia
They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.