Manitou Springs, Colorado
Manitou Incline
This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.
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Manitou Springs, Colorado
This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.
Hilo, Hawaii
Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Chicago, Illinois
This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.
Washington, D.C.
The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.
Wendover, Utah
A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.
Pitumarca, Peru
A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.
Salt Lake City, Utah
The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Truckee, California
The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.
Tristan da Cunha
The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.