Stops from across the guides, gathered by what they are rather than where they are. Pick a pattern and see where it turns up.
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16 stopsCaves and Underground
Places the Highway Heads guides send you below ground: lava tubes, show caves, a working salt mine, a buried city street and a drinking-water reservoir turned echo chamber.
26 stopsFor Animal Lovers
Where the Highway Heads guides find animals: wild horses on two barrier islands, bison inside a city park, elk returned to a valley after a century away, free zoos, and a fish hatchery that has been raising trout since 1892.
25 stopsFor Foodies
Markets, distilleries, factory floors and counters the Highway Heads guides stop at: a brewery inside a bathhouse, another inside a church, a public market trading since 1852, and the diner that says it invented the corn dog.
11 stopsFossils and Dinosaurs
Where the Highway Heads guides find deep time: tracks pressed into a riverbed, a mammoth with butchery marks on its bones, exposed fossil beds older than the trees, and seven concrete dinosaurs a Depression-era work crew put on a hill.
14 stopsLighthouses
Towers the Highway Heads guides stop for, on three coasts and the Great Lakes. Some you can climb, some are still working aids to navigation, and one was left unpainted so ships could tell it from its neighbour.
26 stopsRailroads and Depots
Working yards, grand depots, a rack railway climbing Mount Washington since 1869, and the largest classification yard in the world. The country was laid out by railways, and the Highway Heads guides keep running into them.
14 stopsTheme Parks
Parks the Highway Heads guides stop for: a trolley park running since 1898, a wooden coaster that enthusiast polls keep calling the best in the world, a recreated 1880s town built around a cave, and the one Walt Disney opened himself.