Custer, South Dakota
Crazy Horse Memorial
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Places I've been
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Custer, South Dakota
The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Bombay Beach, California
Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Amboy, California
The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
A century-old bathhouse that provides the luxury of warm water to rural Guatemalans.
Rapa Nui, Chile
The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.
Gaiman, Argentina
A retiree's challenge to build an outdoor wonderland out of trash.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Potosi, Bolivia
Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.
Peru
An abandoned Incan construction project left behind a mysterious "doorway."
Nazca, Peru
A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.
Lima, Peru
Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.
Chucuito Province, Peru
Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Luya, Peru
An Archaeological Wonder of Peru, and the largest stone ruin site in the New World.
Ambato Canton, Ecuador
Massive volcano in the Andes is the farthest point from earth's center.
El Peñol, Colombia
A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.
Santa María del Tule, Mexico
The stoutest tree in the world.
Quetzaltenango, Guatemala
Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.
Brooklyn, New York
One of only two remaining Victorian-era greenhouses in New York.
Brooklyn, New York
A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
Brooklyn, New York
I fought the law and the precinct caved in.