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The partial realization of a utopian proposal to build a master planned community primarily by and for Black Americans.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Drive up a paved road into "Nevada's Yosemite" for exquisite views and mountain hiking in an alpine setting.

An unusual waterfall in the Santa Rosa Range, within the Great Basin of Nevada.

At the base of Steens Mountain resides an otherworldly desert.

A little-known occurrence of fossil wood in northern Washoe County, Nevada, near the Black Rock Desert.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.

The oldest home in Huntington Beach, the farmhouse is a monument to the region's pioneer past.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An entertaining journey through the odd and strange awaits visitors to this shop.

Hidden in a Hollywood apartment, this restaurant takes diners on a gastronomic journey through West Africa.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

Artisans have been gathering in North Carolina since 1989 to show off whimsical takes on an everyday item.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.