The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.