From Dante's View on the Death Valley Scenic Byway in California you can see both the lowest and the highest point of the desert, a difference of over 11,000 feet.
Stand in awe among some of the oldest and largest living things on earth on the Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway in California. Calaveras Big Trees State Park contains the northernmost grove of giant sequoias (sierra redwoods) in the US. Some of its trees are over 250 feet tall, as much as 25 feet in diameter and up to 2,000 years old.
Abraham Lincoln found a resting place in the Rockies at Mount Toll in the Indian Peaks Wilderness of Colorado on the Colorado River Headwaters Byway. To many, this 2,989 feet peak looks like a profile of our 16th President's face, posed as if he were lying down looking up at the clouds.
Step onto the "Roof of the Rocky Mountains," 12,110 feet above sea level at Rock Cut on the Trail Ridge Scenic Byway in Colorado.
At three stories high, the largest "Lazy Susan" jail in the US is on the Loess Hills Scenic Byway — the Squirrel Cage Jail in Council Bluffs in Iowa. Built in 1885, this unique design allowed the jailer to view all prisoners from one vantage point.
On the Country Music Highway in Kentucky, you can enjoy country music history, and refuel your vehicle at the same time, at the Country Music Gas Station in Louisa.
Southern Louisiana is one of only a few locations worldwide with the unique formations known as cheniers, or wooded sandy ridges. A small section of eastern Texas, and the plain from Brazil to Venezuela are the only other places in the world where cheniers exist.
Hikers along the Creole Nature Trail may be glad of the tremendous numbers of birds, for this area of Louisiana also has at least 39 species of mosquitoes.
Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge on the Creole Nature Trail has the highest alligator nesting density in the US.
Pinin' for the fjords? Visit Somes Sound and Harbor on the Acadia Byway in Maine to see the only fjord in the continental U.S. (though geologists now debate the classification and call it a 'fjard' instead.)
Get the jumbo box of popcorn and enjoy a show at the Fox Theater, the largest surviving motion picture palace in the world, located on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.
Planning a jaunt from the continental US to Canada? You'll need to head south — if you're on Woodward Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.
To view a 53-foot waterfall in the middle of a major city, head to Minnehaha Park and Falls on the Grand Rounds Scenic Byway in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Can't make it to Niagara Falls? Brides and grooms can tie the knot in Niagara Cave's wedding chapel on the Historic Bluff Country Scenic Byway in Minnesota.
Travelers can retrace the life of the famed outlaw along the Billy the Kid Trail National Scenic Byway in New Mexico.
Check out one of the nation's best preserved collection of shipwrecks and submerged cultural artifacts at the Underwater Preserves in Lake Champlain and Lake George on the Lakes to Locks Passage in New York.
McKenzie Pass – Santiam Pass Scenic Byway in Oregon contains an underwater forest. More than 3,000 years ago, a volcanic eruption created a clear lake, which swallowed trees that are still rooted to the ground today. Visitors can go for a boat ride and paddle directly over the submerged trees.
The only place in the world where you can watch two rivers collide is on the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway in Oregon. These two headstrong rivers are the North Umpqua and the Little River.
A peach in the sky might make you do a double take, but if you're driving the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Byway in South Carolina, you can relax. It's just the Peachoid — a giant water tower painted to look like a peach.
Burning hotter and cleaner than the native English fuel, coal supplied by the Coal Heritage Trail's town of Bramwell helps keep the royal family warm at London's Buckingham Palace even today.
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