This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

A spiritual center in the Santa Monica Mountains founded by Alice Coltrane after the death of her husband and fellow jazz musician John Coltrane.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

Ecuador's largest Incan ruins show evidence of sophisticated irrigation and diplomacy among the ancient builders.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

Stay in your own little bubble.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

Everything you always wanted to know about borates is here.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.