Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

New York's oldest magic store.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Only ruined buildings and abandoned charcoal kilns remain of this once bustling Wild West boom town.

The notorious Wild West outlaw was raised in this unassuming abode.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

The only completed wing of Utah's first capitol is filled with artifacts and odd stories about its past.

This now-abandoned part of the original transcontinental railroad route provides a surreal driving and historical experience.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.