Angle Inlet, Minnesota
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America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.
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Angle Inlet, Minnesota
America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.
Belgrade, Minnesota
This Minnesota town celebrated the state's 100-year anniversary by creating a massive ode to nature's smartest bird.
Bloomington, Minnesota
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Harmony, Minnesota
This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.
Dyersville, Iowa
A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.
Bedford, Indiana
The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.
Collinsville, Illinois
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Oatman, Arizona
This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.
Boulder City, Nevada
These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.
Boulder City, Nevada
A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.
Fort Mohave, Arizona
Two geoglyphs that are truly unique to North America.
Laughlin, Nevada
A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Canyon, Texas
The Grand Canyon of Texas.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Foster, Rhode Island
As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.
Providence, Rhode Island
Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.
Newport, Rhode Island
Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.
Franconia, New Hampshire
A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Boston, Massachusetts
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
Boston, Massachusetts
The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.