Gilboa, New York
Gilboa Fossils
This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
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Gilboa, New York
This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.
Great Meadows, New Jersey
A small cave hidden deep within the Jenny Jump State Forest.
Chester, New Jersey
A historic grist mill and active sluice on the Black River.
Paterson, New Jersey
In the power of this waterfall, Alexander Hamilton saw the potential for industry.
Burrillville, Rhode Island
This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.
Charleston, South Carolina
South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Midland, Texas
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
Cisco, Texas
Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.
San Antonio, Texas
A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Brattleboro, Vermont
Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.
Hancock, Vermont
An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.
Sparta, Tennessee
These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.
Memphis, Tennessee
Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.
Townsend, Tennessee
Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
More than five miles of underground passageways.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Adams, Tennessee
Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.
Terra, Utah
Ancient volcanic activity made this into an exciting rockhounding site.