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Norwich, CT
A distinctive blue-green bronze woman watches over a grave in Yantic Cemetery. The statue has inspired local stories about who she represents and what she once held, and after being stolen in 2010 she was recovered and returned to the cemetery.
Afton, VA
Engineer Claudius Crozet's 4,273-foot railroad tunnel opened in 1858 after nearly nine years of difficult construction through the Blue Ridge Mountains. The abandoned bore reopened as a pedestrian and bicycle trail in 2020, but it is completely dark inside and the walk to and through it requires a flashlight and appropriate trail access.
Memphis, TN
The Blues Foundation's museum honors musicians, recordings and artifacts connected to the blues tradition. Its location near the Mississippi River and civil-rights landmarks makes it a concentrated stop for the music that shaped much of American popular culture.
Bluff, UT
Reconstructed cabins, wagons and exhibits preserve the story of Mormon pioneers who reached Bluff after the grueling Hole-in-the-Rock expedition. The fort provides context for one of Utah's strangest overland routes.
Blythe, CA
Large human and animal figures were scraped into the desert pavement by Indigenous peoples centuries ago. View only from designated areas and never walk on the protected geoglyphs.
Albuquerque, NM
Short trails climb through volcanic boulders covered with hundreds of petroglyphs at the most developed part of Petroglyph National Monument. The site is highly accessible but the rock art remains protected cultural material.
Bodie, CA
Hundreds of structures survive in a state of 'arrested decay' at one of America's best-preserved mining ghost towns; winter road access can be difficult or impossible.
Las Animas, CO
A few restored adobe buildings and foundations survive from an 1860s settlement on a branch of the Santa Fe Trail associated with Thomas Boggs, John Prowers and Kit Carson. The site has seasonal staffed hours, while self-guided interpretation is available more broadly.
Atoka, OK
Boggy Depot was once an important Choctaw Nation town, stage stop and Civil War supply point before railroads bypassed it. The modern park preserves a cemetery, archaeological traces and interpretation from a community that largely disappeared.
Savage, MD
This bright iron bridge is the last surviving example of Wendel Bollman's once-influential railroad truss design. Built in the 19th century and later moved to Savage, it now carries a pedestrian trail across the Little Patuxent River and can be walked through freely.
Bonanza, ID
Historic mining settlement near Custer and the Yankee Fork dredge. Surviving structures sit in a mixed ownership landscape, so remain on signed public routes and do not enter buildings unless explicitly open.
Bonanza, CO
A tiny surviving legal town surrounded by the remnants of a much larger silver-mining district. Historic buildings and mine traces remain, but the community is still inhabited and private property should be treated accordingly.
Bonaparte, IA
Tiny Bonaparte preserves blocks of nineteenth-century commercial buildings beside the Des Moines River, many dating to the town's milling era. The unusually intact streetscape feels like a near-ghost-town without actually being abandoned.
Savannah, GA
Spanish moss, enormous live oaks, elaborate statuary and family plots fill Savannah's most famous cemetery. Its landscape became internationally recognizable through 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,' but the active cemetery contains far more history than the book's association alone.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Eccentric artist estate filled with murals, shells, monkeys in its history, and tropical gardens.
Boise, ID
BLM-managed overlook where travelers can see the Boise Valley much as Oregon Trail emigrants did after crossing the desert. Use the marked road and interpretive area.
Wendover, UT
The historic measured-mile courses on the Bonneville Salt Flats became synonymous with experimental cars, motorcycles and world land-speed records. Event access depends on salt conditions and scheduled racing meets.
Gibsland, LA
This small museum near the former cafe where Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stopped before their deaths is packed with photographs, replicas and ambush-related memorabilia. It is intentionally focused on one of America's most mythologized crime stories.
Gibsland, LA
A roadside marker identifies the area where law officers ambushed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on May 23, 1934. Pull completely off the roadway only where lawful and safe, and never stand in traffic to recreate photographs.
Alma, AR
A local memorial recalls Alma marshal Henry Humphrey, who was fatally wounded during an encounter with Bonnie and Clyde in 1933. It connects a quiet Arkansas downtown with one of the country’s most notorious outlaw stories.
Bonnie Claire, NV
Remote mill ruins and scattered structures survive at a mining-and-railroad settlement on the edge of the Nevada desert; road conditions and private claims require care.
Dallas, TX
Bank robber Bonnie Parker is buried at Crown Hill Memorial Park, separate from Clyde Barrow despite the pair's famous wish to be buried together.
Walnut Shade, MO
Bonniebrook preserves the home landscape of illustrator Rose O'Neill, creator of the Kewpie characters. A reconstructed house, museum, grave site and artwork collection make the property a strange intersection of cartoon history, Ozark landscape and early twentieth-century art.
York, ME
New England’s tallest lighthouse stands on an isolated rocky island several miles off York. Boon Island also carries grim maritime history, including an infamous 18th-century shipwreck whose stranded survivors were later associated with accounts of cannibalism.
