A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This aluminum airplane pays homage to the Flying Tigers of World War II.

This site in Caldwell County is the location where the Cherokee and Catawba are said to have entered a peace treaty.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

The national headquarters of the dowser’s society founded in 1961.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

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

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

The ruins of a resort and casino sit on the banks of this blue hole spring that pumps 70,000 gallons of warm, clear water every minute.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The well-preserved remnants of a bridge that once made up a WW1-era military railroad.

Turns out fishing with dynamite isn't all that safe.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

More than 250 sakes are available in an izakaya hidden in the basement of a Midtown office building.

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

A local road runs around a memorial to a teenager who died in 1860.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.