Boston, Massachusetts
Mapparium Globe
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
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Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Blenheim, South Carolina
Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn's most iconic restaurant, resurrected.
Savannah, Georgia
A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.
Charleston, South Carolina
This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.
Charleston, South Carolina
A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.
Portland, Oregon
Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.
Seattle, Washington
The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.
Seattle, Washington
A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.
Saint George, South Carolina
The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.
Savannah, Georgia
This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.
Granite Falls, Washington
Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.
Columbia, South Carolina
An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Page, Arizona
Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.
Marble Canyon, Arizona
Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.
Kaneohe, Hawaii
A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.
Koloa, Hawaii
This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.