Cannon Beach, Oregon
Haystack Rock
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
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Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Warrenton, Oregon
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.
Portland, Oregon
The magic's in the hole!
La Cañada Flintridge, California
NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
Benson, Arizona
Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.
Los Alamos, New Mexico
This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Williams, Arizona
An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Flagstaff, Arizona
This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.
Green Valley, Arizona
After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Green Valley, Arizona
America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.
Tucson, Arizona
The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.
Tucson, Arizona
Giant telescope mirrors built in a spinning furnace under a college football stadium.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Tucson, Arizona
Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Coolidge, Arizona
Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.