This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Is this the most Portland place ever?

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A warm desert spring holds one of the rarest species on earth.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

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

In the heart of Brigham Young's promised land sits a festering plot of industrial ruin that has been claimed by society's outcasts.

A museum in rural Utah documents the history of the Japanese Americans who were forcibly relocated there.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.