After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.