The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

Rainbow-hued in the summer and crystalline in the winter, this salty lake has inspired battles, temples, and plenty of awe.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Home to some of the world’s darkest skies, this project blends ancient Māori culture with world-class astro tourism.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.