Gainesville, Florida
The Devil’s Millhopper
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Places I've been
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Gainesville, Florida
This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.
Tucson, Arizona
From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.
Kenton, Oklahoma
The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.
Calhoun, Georgia
Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Pasadena, California
Some of the most unusual (and in some cases, disgusting) flavors of soda imaginable.
Hawthorne, California
The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.
Sutter, California
Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.
Los Angeles, California
A few iconic structures are all that remain of America’s first outdoor shopping mall.
Los Angeles, California
The words of the neighborhood's most famous poets adorn four concrete walls.
Three Rivers, California
A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.
Calipatria, California
The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.
Thousand Palms, California
Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.
Three Rivers, California
Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.
Grass Valley, California
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."
Baker, California
No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
California
The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.
Inyo County, California
The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.
Tulelake, California
Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.
Los Angeles, California
It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
Comstock, Texas
Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.
Amarillo, Texas
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.