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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Traditional Bedouin crafting has become an official tourist site and successful industry for its female craftspeople.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Play heads or tails with thousands of different coins.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A museum collection honoring the long history of the FDNY is held in a disused Manhattan fire house.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt worth a million dollars.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.