You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

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

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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

One of the world's longest murals depicts the history of diversity in Los Angeles.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A world-class observatory in the California desert.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.