A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.