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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

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

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.