An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.