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Shutterstock It’s not what you’d expect in Missouri

Drive through Independence, Missouri, and something on the skyline stops you.

A stainless-steel spiral punches 300 feet into the air, looking like nothing else in the American heartland. It’s not a skyscraper and it’s not a monument.

It’s a house of worship, and the doors are open to anyone who wants to w...


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Shutterstock It’s a river town with big plans

You drive into Pigeon Forge along a narrow valley in East Tennessee, and the Great Smoky Mountains fill every window.

The town runs about five miles along the Little Pigeon River, and somehow they’ve packed more than 10 million visitors a year into that stretch. The national park next door pulls in 12 million on its own....


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Shutterstock Arizona’s best-kept family secret runs on steam

One million people visit McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale every year, and if you’ve never heard of it, that’s part of what makes it worth knowing about.

You walk in for free, pick up a $3 ride ticket, and spend the next few hours moving between a miniature steam train, a presidential railcar,...


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Shutterstock Orange Beach isn’t your average shore town

You’d expect a beach town on the Gulf Coast to sell you on its water and call it a day.

Orange Beach does have the water, but it also has a 28-mile award-winning trail cutting through nine ecosystems, barrier islands you can only reach by boat, a glass-blowing studio overlooking a bay, and a pier that s...


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Shutterstock It’s America’s wildest backyard

Adirondack Park takes up six million acres of northeastern New York, and most people outside the state have no idea it exists. You get 46 peaks above 4,000 feet, more than 3,000 lakes, and over 2,000 miles of trails.

The whole thing is larger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier, and Grand Canyon National Parks put toget...


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