A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

The world's longest known cave system.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.