San Francisco, California
Ruth Asawa’s San Francisco Fountain
Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
San Francisco, California
Created in 1972, the famous sculptor's intricately detailed monument to San Francisco is overflowing with city landmarks.
Martinez, California
A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.
Golden, Colorado
The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Chicago, Illinois
This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
Las Vegas, Nevada
The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.
Boston, Massachusetts
These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.
Brimley, Michigan
This Native American cemetery features decades-old spirit house hidden behind pine trees and moss.
Paris, Kentucky
An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."
Petoskey, Michigan
As Ernest Hemingway scribbled notes for stories, he left a lasting impression on this bar: a charred hole where he extinguished his cigars.
Thunderbolt, Georgia
A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."
Washington, D.C.
There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.
Savannah, Georgia
More than a century after her death, Little Gracie Watson remains one of Savannah's most often-visited residents.
New York, New York
The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.
Traverse City, Michigan
An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.
Islamorada, Florida
Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.
Iceland
A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.
Reykjavik, Iceland
A bit of the Berlin Wall was gifted to the Icelandic capital to commemorate the 25th anniversary of German reunification.
Iceland
If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.