The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

Where now stands a 42-story condominium tower of marble, glass and steel was once the central market of New York’s slave trade.

The iconic Manhattan corner that was once the site of the Beastie Boys' fake clothing store.

Home of the golf club used by Alan Shepard on the moon, and more artifacts from the sport's history.

An allegedly cursed tree represents a town's reckoning with a racist past.

This Boy Scout retreat acted as "Friday the 13th"'s original Camp Crystal Lake.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

A huge enchanting public park just outside the ancient walls of Rome.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Inside this old train depot resides a multi-line model train covering western North Carolina.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

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

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.