Duncans Mills, California
Mammoth Rubbing Rocks
Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.
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Duncans Mills, California
Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.
Santa Rosa, California
Believe it or not, this is the final resting place of the man who created the Odditorium.
Santa Rosa, California
This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.
Santa Rosa, California
340 bicycles, 65 feet high.
Three Forks, Montana
The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.
Basin, Montana
What if the cure for all that ails you was as simple as repeated exposure to low-dose radon?
Clanton, Alabama
The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.
Paris, France
This oddly shaped boulder in Paris is rumored to be cursed.
Boston, Massachusetts
Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.
Sierra Vista, Arizona
A short interpretive trail about one of the first human cultures in North America.
Bisbee, Arizona
One of America's oldest stadiums was also the site of one of the most brutal anti-labor acts in American history.
Washington, D.C.
This large garden vase urn has nothing to do with the seventh U.S. President—it was designed by one landscape designer to honor another landscape designer's contributions to the National Mall.
Washington, D.C.
One of the three perfect vellum copies of this historic book known to exist is on display in a specially-designed case.
Everett, Pennsylvania
A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.
Columbus, Georgia
Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Huntsville, Alabama
What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Eufaula, Alabama
That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.
Eufaula, Alabama
An autonomous oak in Alabama.
Huntsville, Alabama
This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.
Huntsville, Alabama
A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.
Huntsville, Alabama
It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.