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Shutterstock Pikes Peak, Colorado When Katharine Lee Bates reached the top of Pikes Peak in 1893, she later wrote that “the opening lines of...
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Shutterstock Pikes Peak, Colorado When Katharine Lee Bates reached the top of Pikes Peak in 1893, she later wrote that “the opening lines of...
Flickr/Susan Sharpless Smith Robert the Doll, Florida Fort East Martello Museum gets thousands of letters each year. They’re all addressed to a doll named...
Flickr/taberandrew West Virginia Penitentiary, Moundsville For 119 years, the massive stone walls of West Virginia Penitentiary kept the state’s worst offenders locked away from...
Shutterstock U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, Arlington VA A newspaper photo from a bloody Pacific battle became the most famous war photo ever taken....
Shutterstock Fort McHenry, Maryland The walls of Fort McHenry have seen some things: British bombs, the birth of our national anthem, and two centuries...
Shutterstock Seligman, Arizona Seligman, Arizona should have dried up when I-40 replaced Route 66. Instead, this small town saved the entire historic highway. Local...
Shutterstock The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway The steepest railway climb in North America starts in a quiet Colorado town and ends...
Shutterstock Wigwam Motel in Holbrook, Arizona Since 1950, Route 66’s Wigwam Motel in Holbrook has offered concrete tepee stays, after Chester Lewis bought the...
Shutterstock The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park Before the Stanley Hotel became Stephen King’s inspiration for The Shining, it was F.O. Stanley’s 1909 wellness...
Wikimedia Commons/Coconino National Forest Fossil Creek, Arizona Fossil Creek pulls off a rare trick in Arizona: crystal-clear water that stays 70 degrees year-round, rolling...