Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

Take a trip to the past aboard a 1920s railcar or open flatcar for a scenic ride through Maryland farm country.

The world's northernmost botanic garden has 25 collections of plants from arctic and alpine regions.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

Hundreds of painted rocks dazzle this small beach where adding your own is encouraged.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

One of the last surviving buildings of a once large and thriving Chinatown.

This liminal destination combines creaky carnival rides, a classic car museum, and luck-of-the-draw flea market finds surrounded by dust and drive-in movie screens.

The remains of one of Wales’ great medieval buildings, with a pub in the cellar.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

Between 1930 and 1946, a tobacco farmer laid his beloved horses and mules to rest in this small patch of pine forest.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

The Kaveri River cuts through the rocky terrain then drops off to form these misty falls.