Trips
Routes that already make sense — a set of stops in an order that doesn’t double back. Load one into the planner and it behaves like a trip you built yourself.
Road Trips
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Close enough together to drive in one go, anything from an afternoon to a long weekend.
Across Pennsylvania the Odd Way
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia without using the turnpike for anything interesting — a UFO acorn, two hills that roll the wrong way, a town on fire, and the prison that invented solitary confinement.
5 stops · 2 days · Pennsylvania
Across the Upper Peninsula
St Ignace to Ironwood along the top of Lake Michigan and the bottom of Lake Superior — a tilted shack, a shipwreck museum, a copper mine, a hall where 73 people died at a Christmas party, and a light that isn't there.
9 stops · 4 days · Michigan
Basket Country and the Ohio Oddities
A two-day loop through central and eastern Ohio, where the world's largest basket sits opposite the world's largest apple basket, and a cuckoo clock keeps time over an Amish village.
7 stops · 2 days · Ohio
Big Things, Small Town
Seven world's-largest objects in a walkable Illinois town of 2,300, all built by the same man over fifteen years. A four-minute detour off I-70 that deserves an afternoon.
7 stops · 1 day · Illinois
Cleveland and the Western Reserve
A two-day loop east of Cleveland — a witchcraft museum, a graveyard angel that weeps black tears, Chef Boyardee's grave, a castle built for a wife who never moved in, and a town that celebrates the return of vultures.
11 stops · 2 days · Ohio
Giants and Sanitariums Across Texas
El Paso to Beaumont the long way, taking in Cadillac Ranch, a fifteen-foot pair of cowboy boots, and a string of historical markers where hospitals used to be.
9 stops · 4 days · Texas
Paul Bunyan Country
Six stops through the Minnesota lake country that decided a fictional lumberjack was theirs — including two towns that both claim the original statue, and a museum behind a kneeling giant.
5 stops · 2 days · Minnesota
The Bigfoot Highway
Klamath down to Piercy through the redwoods and the Trinity backcountry, taking in the town that made itself the front door to the whole Bigfoot business.
4 stops · 2 days · California
The Extraterrestrial Highway
Nevada State Route 375 and the road west, from a mailbox that keeps getting destroyed to a boundary you cannot cross, ending in two ghost towns on the edge of Death Valley.
6 stops · 2 days · Nevada
The Hudson Valley and North
Rockland County up through the Catskills and Adirondacks into Vermont and Maine — a haunted hayride, a UFO museum, a kaleidoscope inside a silo, and the world's tallest filing cabinet.
6 stops · 4 days · New York, Vermont, Maine
The Hudson Valley and the Catskills
Sleepy Hollow up the river to Woodstock — the Leatherman's grave, a UFO museum, a bluestone quarry turned into a monument, and a castle on an island that its builder never finished.
9 stops · 3 days · New York
The Lincoln Highway Across Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh to Philadelphia on the old road rather than the turnpike — a UFO acorn, a coffee pot, a giant quarter, a shoe you can sleep in, and the gates of hell.
11 stops · 3 days · Pennsylvania
The Mojave and Death Valley Run
Las Vegas out to Death Valley and back across the Mojave — two ghost towns, a mining camp on a private mountain, and the tallest thermometer in the world in the hottest place it could reasonably stand.
7 stops · 3 days · Nevada, California
The Olympic Peninsula Loop
US-101 around the wettest corner of the country, from a big chair at the northwest tip to a frying pan on the coast — with a Sasquatch in the rainforest between them.
3 stops · 3 days · Washington
The West Virginia Monster Run
Moundsville to Point Pleasant down the spine of the state — a prison, an asylum, a monster museum, a tilted house and the town that never stopped looking up.
6 stops · 3 days · West Virginia
Walking Trips
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Towns where you park once and see the rest on foot. Usually old mining places, where everything was built along one street because there was nowhere else flat to build it.
Pioche on Foot
Seven stops along one steep Nevada main street, in a town that was once too violent to bury its dead anywhere but Boot Hill, and which built a courthouse so expensive it took eighty years to pay off.
7 stops · Nevada
Salem on Foot
Twenty stops in two miles, from the bench with Bridget Bishop's name on it to a yard full of scrap-metal monsters — a town that has to hold a real atrocity and a tourist industry on the same street.
20 stops · Massachusetts
The Mall, End to End
Eighteen stops from the Potomac to the Capitol crypt, most of them small enough to walk past — a dog hidden in a memorial wall, a stripe in the Washington Monument, a toga-wearing George Washington.
18 stops · District of Columbia
The Quarter and Tremé on Foot
Fifteen stops from Congo Square to a bar that revolves, taking in the cemetery where Marie Laveau is buried, the mansion nobody wants to live in, and a pharmacy museum that will put you off the nineteenth century.
15 stops · Louisiana
Virginia City on Foot
Ten stops down the length of the Comstock, from the cemeteries on the hill above town to a mine tunnel that opens off the back of a working saloon.
10 stops · Nevada