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A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit. 

Once in disrepair, the house where the 1983 film was shot has been restored and turned into a museum.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Its eclectic exhibits range from the world’s first motorcycle to Luke Skywalker’s Land Speeder.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

One of the largest fleets of armored vehicles in the world, sitting out in the California desert.

Church featuring "high Victorian gothic" architecture.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.