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De Smet, SD
The De Smet complex preserves several buildings directly connected with Laura Ingalls Wilder and her family, including the Surveyors' House and Ingalls family home. The concentration of real locations makes the town unusually dense with sites that later became part of American literary mythology.
Philadelphia, PA
Laurel Hill opened in 1836 as one of America's early rural cemeteries and became a landscape of elaborate mausoleums, sculptures and graves of prominent Philadelphians. The cemetery welcomes self-guided visitors every day and also hosts historical, architectural and macabre-themed tours and events.
Thibodaux, LA
Laurel Valley preserves rows of historic sugar-plantation workers' houses and support buildings in one of the largest surviving complexes of its type. Much of the property remains privately managed, so use designated visitor areas and current tour rules.
Hollandale, MS
A Mississippian mound complex associated with an abandoned Mississippi River channel near Swan Lake. The surviving main mound is on private property but can be seen from the road leading into the wildlife-refuge area.
Lawrence Park Township, PA
This prefabricated Silk City "dinor" arrived in Lawrence Park in 1948 and retains much of its original mid-century diner architecture. It is listed on the National Register, still serves breakfast and lunch, and preserves the peculiar **dinor-with-an-o** spelling that became a Northwestern Pennsylvania tradition.
Beatty, NV
The boom lasted under a year in 1926-27, after aggressive promotion pulled miners and investors into Titus Canyon and poor ore collapsed the whole thing. A few shacks, workings and ruins remain along the one-way Titus Canyon Road — which is scheduled to close from October 2026 to September 2027 for repairs.
Leadville, CO
A scenic railroad operates from Leadville over former mining and freight trackage high in the Rockies. The ride passes mine remnants and high-elevation railroad infrastructure rather than functioning as a standard commuter excursion.
Fort Worth, TX
Lee Harvey Oswald's grave in Rose Hill Cemetery is marked by a simple stone and has long drawn visitors interested in Kennedy-assassination history.
Leedey, OK
Local children created this tornado-shaped metal memorial in 1997 to mark fifty years since the deadly 1947 Leedey tornado. Embedded objects such as a tricycle, boot and cow skull turn the disaster memorial into unusually personal public art.
Kemmerer, WY
A phosphate mining and processing locality in western Wyoming — not Utah, despite the nearest town being over the line. The Leefe Mine ran from 1947 until Wyoming phosphate production ended in 1977. The mine and plant area lies about thirty miles west of Kemmerer and is not maintained for visitors; do not enter old workings or industrial property.
Marble Canyon, AZ
A historic river crossing, ferry site and modern launch point occupy one of the few places where travelers can easily reach the Colorado River between high canyon walls. Remains of settlement and ferry history sit within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
Tuskegee, AL
The museum occupies the former Infantile Paralysis Unit of John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital and examines bioethics, science and the U.S. Public Health Service syphilis study in Macon County. Campus visitors must follow Tuskegee University security and pass procedures.
Hot Springs County, WY
A long sandstone cliff preserves hundreds of Indigenous petroglyph figures, including examples of the Dinwoody tradition.
Cambridge, MA
A small plaque marks the spot nineteenth-century chemist Eben Horsford claimed was the site of Leif Erikson's home from around the year 1000. Mainstream archaeology has not supported Horsford's theory, turning the marker into a physical relic of America's enthusiasm for speculative Viking history.
Leadore, ID
High mountain pass crossed by Lewis and Clark in 1805, where the expedition confronted the Continental Divide and the scale of the western mountains. Gravel roads, snow and weather make access seasonal.
St. Louis, MO
The Lemp family mausoleum in Bellefontaine Cemetery holds members of the brewing dynasty whose tragedies helped fuel the haunted reputation of the Lemp Mansion. It is a useful companion stop to the mansion and can be visited respectfully under cemetery rules.
Ray, OH
The Leo Petroglyph contains dozens of prehistoric figures carved into a sandstone outcrop, including humans, animals and abstract forms associated with Indigenous people of the region. A protective shelter covers the carvings and the state historic site is accessible to visitors from the adjoining public area.
Woodville, MS
A prehistoric mound site in Wilkinson County representing the lower Mississippi Valley's long ceremonial landscape. The mounds are part of the state driving trail but should be viewed from public access only.
Monticello, FL
Home to Florida's tallest known Native American ceremonial mound.
Lewiston, ID
Interpretive center at Hells Gate State Park focused on the Corps of Discovery and the Snake-Clearwater river corridor. Public park access makes it a reliable route stop.
Great Falls, MT
A major interpretive center overlooking the Missouri River, focused on the expedition’s difficult portage around the Great Falls and the wider Indigenous landscape.
Seaside, OR
A stone cairn marks the site where expedition members boiled seawater for weeks to make salt needed for the return trip east.
Kaskaskia, IL
A bell captured from the British at Kaskaskia in 1778 became known as the Liberty Bell of the West and remains on the isolated former state-capital island.
Eunice, LA
The 1924 Liberty Theatre became famous for live Cajun and zydeco programming and is a landmark of Eunice's music district. Restoration work has affected interior access, so OddWay should treat it as an exterior stop unless a current event explicitly opens the building.
