The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

A century-old stone hermitage overlooks this remote pass in the Hoggar mountains, surrounded by a landscape of eroded volcanic cores.

This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.

The world’s largest permanent desert lake is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

This colonial fort is an intriguing example of Renaissance military architecture.