Lebanon, Kansas
Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lebanon, Kansas
Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.
Key West, Florida
A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The geographical center of Chile is a port so depressing that it has driven men to suicide.
Athens, Wisconsin
The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.
San Antonio de Pichincha, Ecuador
An elaborate shrine dedicated to the four corners of the world unfortunately misses its mark.
Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.
Antarctica
Considered the most remote point in the entire world.
Qoqek, China
Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.
North Pontianak, Indonesia
This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.
Tromsø, Norway
The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.
Enontekiö, Finland
This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.
Naalehu, Hawaii
The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Rugby, North Dakota
A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.
Florence, Colorado
This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
Boston, Massachusetts
The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.
Plymouth, Trinidad and Tobago
A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.
Arco, Idaho
Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.
Mackay, Idaho
This highest peak in Idaho can only be reached by traversing a formation known as "Chicken-Out Ridge."
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.
Worden, Montana
The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.