A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

An underwater city for the dead.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.