The Atlas
Places worth the detour
Every kind of place the atlas can name, and every one of them traced to a record we can show you.
WaterfallsFalling water, mapped to the roads that reach it. Some run all year; some only after a storm, and the record says which.Hot springsGeothermal water at the surface. Only springs recorded as hot are listed here — a spring is not a hot spring unless the record says so.LighthousesThe towers at the edge of the road. Many carry a build date and a place on the National Register, and where they do it is on the page.Covered bridgesRoofed timber crossings still carrying a road. They are short detours by nature — the bridge is the destination and the drive to it.BeachesWhere the road meets the water. Only named beaches are listed — most of what OpenStreetMap maps as sand has no name, and an unnamed shore is not a destination.Historic sitesMonuments, forts, ruins and memorials standing where they were built. What the record knows is what the page says.PeaksMountains, buttes and volcanoes the map knows by name, with the recorded elevation where the survey has one.Rest areasSigned stops along the through road — somewhere legal to pause, stretch, and read the map. Named what the road record names them.Ghost townsSettlements abandoned and left standing, from mining camps to rail stops. What the public record says about each is what the page says.Dark sky placesParks, reserves and sanctuaries certified for their night skies — a designation carried by places, each traced to its Wikidata record.