Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A collection of pianos and more guaranteed to delight anyone interested in music history.

Hub of Scandinavian culture in a Minneapolis deli.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

A creepy statue of a hooded ghost hauls itself up from the water in a historic Lithuanian city.

This ornate church has survived Nazi and Soviet occupation, including a short stint as a Soviet-era gymnasium and cinema.

A black cat protests the City Guild in Riga's Old Town.