A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

The site of the notorious Camp Sumter Prison is now a peaceful memorial.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

Often referred to as the largest spring in America.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

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

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.