A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

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

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

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

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.