Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

This museum gives tribute to the underappreciated "Down-South Submarine."

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is a treasure trove of rare flora.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.