Moab, Utah
Landscape Arch
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
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Moab, Utah
The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.
Torrey, Utah
A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.
Parowan, Utah
Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.
Escalante, Utah
Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.
Port Arthur, Texas
Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.
College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
San Antonio, Texas
Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.
Galveston, Texas
The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.
San Angelo, Texas
A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Springfield, Illinois
The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.
Springfield, Illinois
When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.
North Fort Myers, Florida
The largest retailer of seashells in the world.
Green River, Utah
Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."
Rockville, Utah
Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.
Kanab, Utah
Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."
Kane, Utah
This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Panguitch, Utah
Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.