Raz and the punk-rat take the US

35 Places

McKittrick, California

Penny Bar

Hidden in the back of a disused small town hotel is a dive bar shellacked with over a million pennies.

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Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Three Rivers, California

Moro Rock

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

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Bridgeport, California

Bodie State Historic Park

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

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Mammoth Lakes, California

Devils Postpile National Monument

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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Fiddletown, California

Chew Kee Store

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

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The Shoe Tree of Middlegate

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

The Republic of Molossia

The smallest country in the world.

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Sand Mountain

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

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Virginia City, Nevada

Ponderosa Saloon

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

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Washoe County, Nevada

Bonsai Rock, Lake Tahoe

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Stokes Castle

This railroad magnate's 19th century tower is more than a little bit out of place in the Nevada desert.

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U.S. Route 50

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

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Jarbidge, Nevada

Jarbidge Wilderness

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.

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White King

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

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The Spiral Jetty

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

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West Valley City, Utah

Gravesite of Utah's First Jedi Priest

"May the force be with you always."

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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

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Sun Valley, Idaho

Ernest Hemingway's Grave

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

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Kayenta, Arizona

Mystery Valley

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

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Kayenta, Arizona

Burger King Navajo Code Talkers Display

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

Antelope Canyon

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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Horseshoe Bend

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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Springdale, Utah

The Narrows

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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Hurricane, Utah

Pioneer Heritage Museum

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

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Clark County, Nevada

Valley of Fire

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

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Clark County, Nevada

Double Negative

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

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Las Vegas, Nevada

The Big Edge

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

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Seven Magic Mountains

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

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Goodsprings, Nevada

Pioneer Saloon

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

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Santa Monica, California

Church of Type

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

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Santa Monica, California

Farnam House

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

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Monticello, Utah

Home of Truth

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

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Marble Canyon, Arizona

The Wave

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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Albert Szukalski's Last Supper

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

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