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Avery Island, Louisiana

Tabasco Museum and Factory

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Moundville Archaeological Site

Moundville, Alabama

Moundville Archaeological Site

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

An illustration of the hotel, circa mid 1930s - mid 1940s

Birmingham, Alabama

Thomas Jefferson Tower's Zeppelin Mooring Mast

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Furnaces

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Statue of Vulcan

Birmingham, Alabama

Statue of Vulcan

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Cabin in Helvetia

Randolph County, West Virginia

Helvetia

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

Saint Michael's Cathedral in Sitka, AK.

Sitka, Alaska

Saint Michael's Cathedral

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

The White Pass Railroad and Yukon Railroad

Skagway, Alaska

White Pass & Yukon Route Railroad

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.

Tlingit Indians wearing their regalia, Chilkat Indian village, Klukwan.

Haines, Alaska

Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

Train rounding a bend.  Looking back.

Clarkdale, Arizona

Verde Canyon Railroad

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

Montezuma Castle National Monument

Yavapai County, Arizona

Montezuma Castle

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Montezuma Well

Rimrock, Arizona

Montezuma Well

This sinkhole in the Arizona desert is filled with carbonated, arsenic-rich water

Chapel of the Holy Cross

Sedona, Arizona

Chapel of the Holy Cross

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park

Sedona, Arizona

Amitabha Stupa and Peace Park

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

Standin' On the Corner Park

Winslow, Arizona

Standin’ On the Corner Park

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

Jack Rabbit Trading Post

Winslow, Arizona

Jack Rabbit Trading Post

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Ella's Frontier
Permanently Closed

Joseph City, Arizona

Ella's Frontier Trading Post

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Wigwam Village #6 is one of seven original Wigwam Village Motels.

Holbrook, Arizona

The Wigwam Village #6

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Petrified Wood

Holbrook, Arizona

Petrified Forest National Park

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Sand dunes...NOT snow!

Alamogordo, New Mexico

White Sands National Park

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

World's Largest Pistachio

Alamogordo, New Mexico

PistachioLand: World's Largest Pistachio

This is one really big nut.

International UFO Museum and Research Center

Roswell, New Mexico

International UFO Museum and Research Center

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Waco Mammoth Site

Waco, Texas

Waco Mammoth Site

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Simmons-Wright Company Store

Toomsuba, Mississippi

Simmons-Wright Company Store

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

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