Greensburg, Kansas
The Big Well
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
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Greensburg, Kansas
The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.
Oakley, Kansas
One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.
Lucas, Kansas
A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.
Pasadena, California
A stunning modern interpretation of a Roman temple.
Pasadena, California
The American Home, Re-imagined.
Pasadena, California
A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.
Pasadena, California
Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.
Phoenix, Arizona
Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.
St. Louis, Missouri
The oldest soda fountain in St. Louis has been serving up treats for more than a century.
Sacramento, California
At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.
Ely, Nevada
Welcome to a feel-good American drugstore, in the classic sense of the term.
Floyd, Virginia
Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.
Kenova, West Virginia
A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.
Picher, Oklahoma
This former mining town was named the most toxic town in America.
Vienna, Austria
These two 15th-century metal rods allowed people to check if they were swindled or not.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Venice, Italy
The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.
Los Angeles, California
A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.
Rangeley, Maine
Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.
London, England
An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.
Huntsville, Alabama
The quiet resting place of a rock and roll legend.
Saint Claude, Manitoba
St. Claude, Manitoba, commemorates its first settlers with a giant tobacco smoking pipe monument.
Edsbyverken, Sweden
This Swedish village shows off its most well-known products in a big way.
Tiverton, Nova Scotia
This massive rock column in Canada is perched on a corner of its base, seeming to defy gravity.