Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

The echoes of a railroad town that solemnly mark the end of the line.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"