These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

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

This remote camping site offers incredible stargazing opportunities.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

A statue commemorating a 16-year old girl's nighttime ride to raise a militia against attacking British troops.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This factory made "health corsets" that were a step towards liberating women's bodies.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.