A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.