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Devil's Golf Course, Death Valley - Furnace Creek, California

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Published on 08-12-2015 12:49 AM

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Follow the short, unpaved road that leads west off Badwater Road a few miles north of Badwater Basin and you will arrive at one of the park's more remarkable natural features, an other-worldly landscape consisting of thousands of jagged clusters of salt crystals. So called because ...

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Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes - Stovepipe Wells California

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Published on 08-10-2015 12:43 AM

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Set your alarm early and make your way out onto Mesquite Flat Dunes in time to watch the sun rise and experience one of Death Valley's truly magical moments. Even if you can't make it at the beginning or end of the day when the low sun highlights the ripples and waves of the dunes, this easily accessible area of the park is a wonderful place to explore and get the sand between your toes. ...

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Grand Canyon Caverns - Peach Springs, Arizona

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Published on 07-21-2015 12:02 AM

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Trips into this cave complex used to see visitors pay 25 cents a time to be lowered down by rope (and take their own light source), today there's an elevator to whisk you 210 feet underground. There's a choice of tours through the illuminated caverns, including a wheelchair accessible trail and it's possible to get married ...

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Great Salt Lake - Magna, Utah

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Published on 07-08-2015 12:58 AM

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Great Salt Lake is the largest remnant of ancient Bonneville Lake left in the Great Basin and the largest lake west of the Mississippi. It is famously one of the saltiest bodies ...

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Town of Wells, Nevada

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Published on 07-06-2015 12:53 AM

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The deep springs that gave Wells its name were a natural resting stop for the Shoshone and subsequently made this a well known point along the California Trail. The arrival of first the Transcontinental Railroad and then US Highway 40 brought a level of prosperity that is ...

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Wendover Will, West Wendover, Nevada

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Published on 07-04-2015 12:48 AM

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Named for William 'Bill' Smith, who opened a gas station here on the Utah/Nevada border in 1926 and went on to found the State Line Hotel and Casino, Wendover Will has been greetings visitors ...

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Pickle's Place - Arco, Idaho

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Published on 07-02-2015 12:43 AM

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Pickle's Place is a traditional, unassuming roadside diner, complete with chrome stools and formica tables. It's also famous (locally at least) as the 'Home of The Atomic Burger.' Atomic? Well, on July 17th, 1955, Arco become the first city in the world to be lit up by atomic energy ...

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First Transcontinental Phone Line - West Wendover Nevada

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Published on 06-25-2015 06:35 AM

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A car lot in the casino city of West Wendover, Nevada might seem an unlikely place to find one of the USA's most important historic sites but if you walk to the corner of the Montego Bay hotel you'll find a plaque and telegraph pole marking the point ...

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Tillamook Air Museum - Tillamook, Oregon

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Published on 06-22-2015 12:43 AM

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Tillamook Air Museum is one of America's largest private collections of fighter planes and other military aircraft. Highlights include a P-38 Lightning, Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (Mini-Guppy), FM-2 Wildcat and F-14A Tomcat and you don't actually have to know anything about them to enjoy an hour or two wandering around ...

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Old Yellowstone Trail - Corwin Springs, Montana

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Published on 06-20-2015 08:33 AM

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The Yellowstone Trail, America's most northerly transcontinental highway, was first conceived in 1912 (predating the Lincoln Highway by a year). While much of the original route has long since disappeared, the spur linking Livingston to Yellowstone National Park remains virtually unchanged. ...

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