Bring a flashlight. That's the one piece of gear most first-time visitors to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park don't think to pack, and it's exactly what you need to step inside the hollowed-out trunk of…
Sixteen acres of boulders, some the size of small cars, sit in a field in the Pocono foothills, left behind roughly 20,000 years ago when glaciers retreated from this part of Pennsylvania. Boulder Field is…
Honeymoon Island and its neighbor Caladesi Island sit just a few hundred yards apart in Florida's Gulf Coast, yet they're reached in completely different ways. Drive straight onto Honeymoon Island via the Dunedin Causeway, no…
A Moorish-style castle sits behind the dunes at Huntington Beach State Park, its arches and courtyards looking distinctly out of place against the Grand Strand's typical beach-town backdrop. Atalaya, the winter home of sculptor Anna…
While other Texas Hill Country lakes shrink to mudflats during drought, Inks Lake stays full year-round, a quirk of its dam management that's made it one of the most reliable swimming and paddling destinations in…
Real, 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks sit in a Texas riverbed you can wade into and touch — but here's the catch nobody mentions until they've already made the drive: whether you can actually see them depends…
The name comes from a grim 19th-century legend: cowboys once corralled wild mustangs on this narrow mesa top, naturally fenced in by sheer cliffs and a slim neck of land, only for some of the…
Ever driven through a nine-foot-wide granite tunnel and come out the other side face-to-face with a 2,000-pound bison standing in the middle of the road? That's a fairly normal Tuesday at Custer State Park. Spread…
Forty-six vintage beach cottages sit along this stretch of Orange County coastline, built in the 1930s and '40s as a seaside artist colony — and only about two dozen of them are actually available to…
There's exactly one place on Earth where the general public can dig for diamonds and walk away owning whatever they find, no size limit, no value threshold, no fine print. That place is a 37.5-acre…
