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

A Romanesque sanctuary of calm amid the bustle of downtown Los Angeles.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.

A small museum displays some of the artifacts discovered during a subway station renovation.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The legacy of a wealthy executive and his wife, this little-known art museum features works by Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, and more.

A former department store turned into a quirky restaurant.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

The only labyrinth within the city of Alexandria.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

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

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

Step past the gas pumps and into a fine French bistro.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

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