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Old Cahawba is a complex and mysteriously evocative place, an encapsulation of much of the state's history, and a place that is, apparently, a place to leave. It began as a major Native American village, with a palisade wall and a large mound inside. Briefly, it was...
Dogpatch is an abandoned Ozark resort, built in the late 1960s to resemble a fictional southern community described in great detail in Al Capp's comic strip, Li'l Abner, read by millions in newspapers between 1934-1977. The site is notable especially as it is a...
Burning Man is an annual festival that takes place on the vast playa of the Black Rock Desert, in northern Nevada. It typically attracts over ten thousand people, and has been called the best party in the world by self-proclaimed eurotrash veterans of the global party...
The Marsh Billings Rockefeller Historic Site is a complicated place. Located in the town of Woodstock, perhaps Vermont's fanciest town, it is the state's first and only National Park. It consists of a few hundred acres covering Mount Tom, and the farm and houses of an...
One of the major Marine Corps bases in the country, located on the Pacific Ocean between Los Angeles and San Diego, with Interstate 5 traveling through its western flank. Training takes place by Army, Navy and Marine units throughout the rolling hills of the 126,000...
The Salton Sea is a 40 mile long inland sea formed by accident, and is now a briny agricultural sink, in one of the most arid places in the country. Before the sea formed, the area was a dry depression, below sea level, south of which was one of the most productive...
Travelers on 150th Street East, in the open desert east of Lancaster, might imagine they are approaching such a place, despite the unlikely location (Route 66 never came near here - 150th Street is part of a grid carved out of the desert as part of development plans...
Alan Sonfist's Time Landscape sculpture at the intersection of West Houston Street and LaGuardia Place in New York City's Greenwich Village represents this pioneer of the 1960's Earth/Land Art movement's signature concept of bringing nature back into the urban...
Two nuclear detonations performed in a subterranean salt dome formation in Mississippi, as part of a 1960's Atomic Energy Commission Test. The test program, called Project Dribble, called for creating an underground cavity, using a nuclear bomb to do so, then later...
A natural, spring-fed lake, a few hundred feet across. The water stays at a comfortable 75 degrees year round. Scuba divers come from as far away as Ogden to do their “open water” check-out dives here. The pool is 60 feet deep in places, and there are submerged...
The Nevada Test Site (NTS) is a 1,350 square miles (860,000 acres) restricted area in southern Nevada, owned and operated by the Department of Energy. It is a multi-use, open-air laboratory that was the primary location of the nuclear weapons testing program for the...
The small town of Piru was founded over 100 years ago as a Christian agrarian utopia, in the orange groves of the Santa Clara River Valley, down the road from the "Home of Ramona," the legendary character of a romantic novel that captured the imagination of the public...
Hunters Point, a heavily industrialized and contaminated Navy shipyard, is in the midst of the slow conversion to civilian use. It operated as a military shipyard from 1941 to 1974, servicing ships of all kinds, from submarines to aircraft carriers. After Pacific...
A massive boulder looming above town, that appears to be held in place by a large chain. In fact, the chain is ornamental, designed to attract attention and tourists.
A popular recreational destination, with the notorious Party Cove at the western edge of the 98 mile long lake, a place, it has been said, that can put spring break at Fort Lauderdale to shame.
Joe Minter is a visionary artist who has created a sculpture park of American history in his backyard. Using lumber, dolls, lawn ornaments, doors, and other found materials that he shapes, paints, assembles, and writes on, Minter has created a walk through "African...
One celebrated remote place in Alabama is Gee's Bend (famous at least in the arts and crafts worlds). It was here that, due to the isolation and creativity of its denizens, a unique form of quilt patterning emerged, based on African traditions, yet cut, literally, from...
The State Court House in Montgomery, Alabama's capital, was made famous by the controversy that emerged around a two and a half ton stone monument with a tablet listing the Ten Commandments, which was placed in a prominent spot in the lobby of the building, in 2001....
An environmental research and development installation, operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, and specializing in industrial agriculture and remediation sciences, including clean-up at military installations. Until the 1970s, when the facility's name was changed...
Located in an old quarry, now the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey, this is a garden of miniature replicas of churches all over the world, executed in great detail, and landscaped into the rock. Largely the work of Brother Joseph Zoetl, who labored at the site almost...