The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

Once disputed as the largest sundial in the world.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

A giant doughnut was given to the small New Zealand town of Springfield to promote "The Simpsons Movie."

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

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

A dramatic sculpture high up in Yorkshire with vistas on an industrial scale.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.

Inside this Darjeeling museum, you can see a pair of boots that once stood at the top of the world.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

This massive metal sculpture in the shape of a folded paper airplane overlooks a Utah mountain.

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

A spiralling hourglass-shaped tower rises from the forests in Denmark.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.