This Art-Deco movie palace is the oldest independent cinema in Atlanta.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A historic gristmill that still produces flour and grits the old-fashioned way.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

This bar hosts an ever-evolving napkin art installation devoted to an American president.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Located on the campus of Emory University, this museum is filled with objects from the Americas to ancient Greece.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A mysterious air force base built to resemble a Long Island fishing village.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.