The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

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

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

An Alaska livestock farm devotes itself to harvesting wool from creatures that once ran with mammoths and sabertooth tigers.

This black church sits alone among a field of lava rock.

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

This mountain fissure hides a secret path to a secluded mossy grotto within the rock itself.