Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Several times a year, during low tide, two pairs of historic train tracks are revealed on this New Jersey beach.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.