The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A town honors its legacy of traditional American Indian pipe carving with one gigantic pipe.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

This fully restored synagogue explores the American Jewish experience along the old frontier.

This Colorado fire station has been in continuous operation for more than a century.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

A glimpse of a waterfall is reached by a steel catwalk along a slot canyon located in an Ouray city park.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Hidden high on a remote mountain peak is a humbling and mysterious Vietnam War memorial.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

This razorback ridgeline has doubled as a scenic drive since the early 1900s.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Named after one of Canada's greatest writers who lived out her days in this quaint neighborhood.

One of the foremost Sherlock Holmes collections is hidden away at a Toronto library.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.