In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

A land of debatable treasure.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.