The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.