Landmarks & Attractions

17-Mile Drive

The coastal drive past Pebble Beach

American Museum of Natural History

Dinosaurs and dioramas on Central Park West

Animas Forks

A ghost town above 11,000 feet

Area 51

The secret Nevada airfield at Groom Lake

Arrowhead Stadium

The loudest stadium in the world

AT&T Stadium

The Dallas Cowboys' colossal domed venue

Bannack

Montana's first territorial capital, now abandoned

Beaver Stadium

Penn State's giant, home of the "White Out"

Ben Hill Griffin Stadium

Florida's "Swamp"

Bodie

California's best-preserved gold-rush ghost town

Bohemian Grove

The secretive elite retreat in the redwoods

Bombay Beach

A faded Salton Sea resort turned art colony

Busch Gardens Tampa Bay

African-themed park, coasters and a safari

Cadillac Ranch

Ten Cadillacs buried nose-down in the Texas plains

Calico

A restored silver ghost town in the Mojave

Camp David

The president's wooded mountain retreat

Carhenge

Stonehenge rebuilt from vintage cars in Nebraska

Cedar Point

The roller coaster capital of the world

Centralia

The Pennsylvania town on top of a burning mine

Cheyenne Mountain Complex

The bunker inside a Colorado mountain

Cloud Gate ("The Bean")

Chicago's mirror-polished sculpture

Coral Castle

A mysterious one-man stone garden

Darrell K Royal Stadium

The University of Texas's burnt-orange giant

Disney California Adventure

Disneyland's sister park

Disney's Animal Kingdom

A zoological theme park at Disney World

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Movies, Star Wars, and Toy Story at Disney World

Disneyland

The original Disney park

Dodger Stadium

The largest ballpark in baseball

Dollywood

Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountains park

Dugway Proving Ground

The remote chemical-and-biological test range

EPCOT

Disney's park of the future and the world

Fort Detrick

The center of U.S. biodefense research

Fort Knox Bullion Depository

The fortified vault of the U.S. gold reserve

Garnet

Montana's best-preserved ghost town

Going-to-the-Sun Road

The cliff-hanging drive across Glacier

Goldfield

Once Nevada's largest city

Grafton

A ghost town beneath the cliffs near Zion

Grand Central Terminal

The Beaux-Arts temple of rail travel

Granite Mountain Records Vault

The genealogical archive inside a mountain

Hersheypark

The chocolate-town amusement park

Historic Columbia River Highway

The waterfall drive through the Gorge

Hoover Dam

The concrete colossus on the Colorado

Independence Hall

The birthplace of the United States

Interstate 90

The longest Interstate highway

Jerome

The copper "ghost city" clinging to a mountain

Jordan-Hare Stadium

Auburn's home on the Plains

Kennecott

Alaska's abandoned copper company town

Kennywood

Pittsburgh's historic trolley park

Kings Island

Ohio's coaster park with a mini Eiffel Tower

Knott's Berry Farm

America's original theme park

Kyle Field

Home of Texas A&M's "12th Man"

L.A. Memorial Coliseum

The only three-time Olympic stadium

Lambeau Field

"The Frozen Tundra" of the Green Bay Packers

Los Alamos National Laboratory

The secret birthplace of the atomic bomb

Lucy the Elephant

A six-story elephant on the Jersey Shore

Magic Kingdom

The most-visited theme park in the world

MetLife Stadium

Home to two NFL teams outside New York

Michigan Stadium

"The Big House" — the largest stadium in the U.S.

Mount Weather

FEMA's underground emergency operations center

Museum of African American History and Culture

The Smithsonian's bronze-clad museum on the Mall

National Air and Space Museum

Flight and spaceflight on the National Mall

National Museum of American History

The nation's attic on the Mall

National Museum of Natural History

The Smithsonian's most-visited museum

Nevada National Security Site

The desert proving ground for nuclear tests

Neyland Stadium

Tennessee's giant on the river

Notre Dame Stadium

"The House that Rockne Built"

NSA Headquarters

The black-glass home of U.S. signals intelligence

Oatman

A Route 66 gold town roamed by wild burros

Ohio Stadium

"The Horseshoe" in Columbus

Old Cahawba

Alabama's abandoned first capital

One World Trade Center

The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere

Pacific Coast Highway

California's clifftop coastal drive

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox

Giant statues of a lumberjack legend

Plum Island

The island lab for animal-disease research

Raven Rock (Site R)

The "underground Pentagon" on the Pennsylvania line

Rhyolite

A Nevada boomtown gone in a decade

Route 66

The "Mother Road" from Chicago to the Pacific

Salvation Mountain

A painted hillside of folk-art devotion

Sanford Stadium

Georgia's hedged field "between the hedges"

SeaWorld Orlando

Marine park and coasters

SFMOMA

The West Coast's modern-art flagship

Shaniko

Oregon's "wool capital" turned ghost town

Silver Dollar City

An 1880s-themed park in the Ozarks

Six Flags Great Adventure

Home of Kingda Ka, the record-breaking coaster

Six Flags Magic Mountain

"The Thrill Capital of the World"

Skunk Works (Air Force Plant 42)

The secret home of America's spy planes

Skyline Drive

The ridgetop road through Shenandoah

SoFi Stadium

The futuristic home of two L.A. NFL teams

South of the Border

A neon roadside empire on Interstate 95

South Pass City

A Wyoming gold town near the Oregon Trail

St. Elmo

One of Colorado's best-preserved ghost towns

Tail of the Dragon

318 curves in 11 miles

Terlingua

A quicksilver ghost town near Big Bend

The Alamo

The old mission and shrine of Texas independence

The Art Institute of Chicago

Lions guarding a great encyclopedic collection

The Beartooth Highway

Switchbacks to nearly 11,000 feet

The Big Duck

A duck-shaped building that named an idea

The Blue Ridge Parkway

America's longest scenic parkway

The Blue Whale of Catoosa

A beloved Route 66 swimming hole

The Broad

Contemporary art behind a "veil and vault"

The Cabazon Dinosaurs

Giant roadside dinosaurs off Interstate 10

The California Science Center

Home of the Space Shuttle Endeavour

The Chrysler Building

Manhattan's Art Deco crown

The Coca-Cola Vault

The guarded home of a secret formula

The Corn Palace

A South Dakota arena decorated in corn

The Cotton Bowl

The historic bowl at the Texas State Fair

The Empire State Building

The Art Deco tower that defined the skyline

The Enchanted Highway

Giant scrap-metal sculptures on the prairie

The Exploratorium

The hands-on science museum on the Bay

The Extraterrestrial Highway

The empty desert road by Area 51

The Field Museum

Chicago's natural-history giant, home of Sue

The Franklin Institute

Philadelphia's science museum and giant heart

The Fremont Troll

A giant troll clutching a car under a bridge

The Gateway Arch

The stainless-steel gateway to the West

The Getty Center

Art and architecture above Los Angeles

The Greenbrier Bunker

Congress's secret fallout shelter under a resort

The Guggenheim Museum

Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral on Fifth Avenue

The Hollywood Sign

The white letters on the Los Angeles hills

The Jolly Green Giant Statue

A 55-foot advertising mascot in Minnesota

The Kancamagus Highway

New England's classic fall-foliage drive

The Las Vegas Strip

The neon boulevard of casinos

The Lincoln Highway

America's first transcontinental road

The Lincoln Memorial

The temple to the sixteenth president

The Loneliest Road (U.S. 50)

The empty desert highway across Nevada

The Longaberger Basket Building

A seven-story office shaped like a basket

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

America's largest and most-visited art museum

The Million Dollar Highway

A guardrail-free cliff drive in the San Juans

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

New England's great art museum

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)

The temple of modern art in Midtown

The Mystery Spot

A tilted-cabin gravity illusion

The Natchez Trace Parkway

A 444-mile road along an ancient trail

The National Gallery of Art

The nation's art museum on the Mall

The National WWII Museum

The story of the war, told in New Orleans

The Overseas Highway

The road that hops across the Florida Keys

The Pentagon

The headquarters of the U.S. military

The Road to Hana

Maui's jungle drive of 600 curves

The Rose Bowl

The historic bowl in Pasadena

The Space Needle

Seattle's flying-saucer tower

The Statue of Liberty

The copper colossus in New York Harbor

The Transamerica Pyramid

San Francisco's tapering spire

The United States Capitol

The domed seat of Congress

The Washington Monument

The marble obelisk on the National Mall

The White House

The residence of the president

The Wigwam Motel

Sleep in a concrete teepee on Route 66

Thurmond

A near-empty railroad town in a river gorge

Tiger Stadium

LSU's "Death Valley"

Times Square

"The Crossroads of the World"

Trail Ridge Road

The highest continuous paved road in the U.S.

Trinity Site

Where the first atomic bomb was detonated

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

The nation's memorial to the Holocaust

U.S. Route 1

The East Coast's Maine-to-Florida highway

Universal Studios Florida

Movie-making magic in Orlando

Universal Studios Hollywood

The theme park and working film studio

Universal's Islands of Adventure

Universal's thrill-ride park in Orlando

Virginia City

A preserved Montana gold-rush capital

Wall Drug

The billboard empire on the edge of the Badlands

Willis Tower

Chicago's black-steel giant (the former Sears Tower)

World's Largest Ball of Paint

A baseball buried under thousands of coats

World's Largest Ball of Twine

A Kansas town's ever-growing sphere

Yucca Mountain

The stalled nuclear-waste repository