An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

A museum of natural history, Edwin Carter's original log cabin home and workshop houses taxidermy specimens.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This stunning home looks like it belongs in medieval Europe, not North Carolina.

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

A sinkhole known simply as "The Hole."

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.