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

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

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

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

Sip coffee and talk politics at this landmark cafe in Astoria's Little Egypt, a contender for the title of America's first hookah bar.

2,000 barrels of aging beer hidden in a warehouse at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

At this small shop off a dirt road in the forest, the specialty is eel the owner caught and smoked himself.

Sunset Park's Guatemalan community knows to head to the back of this bodega for a taste of home.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

“Wagon Jobber" turned smokehouse magnate's family-owned business is still going strong 100 years later.