Wikimedia Commons/Carol M. Highsmith The Madonna Inn’s wild rooms and pink cake Somewhere between Los Angeles and San Francisco, just off Highway…
Shutterstock Meet Sequoia’s Stairway to the Sky You spot Moro Rock before you’re even parked. The pale granite dome rises thousands of…
Shutterstock Two American originals share one grove You drive along Beach Boulevard in Biloxi, and a cluster of curving metal buildings rises…
Shutterstock Where the Columbia meets the Pacific The Long Beach Peninsula runs along Washington’s southwest coast, where the Columbia River pushes into…
Shutterstock Utah’s Petroglyphs Sit Off Interstate 15 You take a short drive off Interstate 15, near the town of Parowan, and end…
Wikimedia Commons/Ammodramus Red Cloud’s literary roots run deep Red Cloud sits in southern Nebraska, close to the Kansas border, and almost everything…
Wikimedia Commons/blmcalifornia California’s wildest canyon isn’t far You can drive two hours east of Los Angeles, turn south off Interstate 15, and…
Wikimedia Commons/Niranjan Arminius A Peak With Two Distinct Humps You know this shape even if you have never climbed it. Camel’s Hump…
Wikimedia Commons/Jsweida Texas’ oldest parishes still hold Mass Nine miles of road in far west Texas connect three Spanish colonial churches that…
Wikimedia Commons/Ahill.laurel Laurel’s lumber money still shows You can walk the whole thing in an afternoon. Laurel’s Historic District sits near the…