The second seat of Nye County, still mostly a ghost town, has become a magnet for those looking to live "away from it all."

The highest peak in Puerto Rico is home to a rare fern that can only be found on six trees at its summit.

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

In September 1974, a small group of athletes completed the first modern triathlon event in San Diego's Mission Bay.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Organisms normally seen under a microscope decorate this church.

After this historic church was destroyed by World War II bombing, its blackened shell was left standing as a monument.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

You’ve heard of bookworms, but this small sculpture at a university library may be the world’s first bookbee.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This hollow steel globe is the second-largest in the world.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

A different Edgar Allan Poe built this charming Victorian home.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.