Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

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

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.