Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The ruins of this former mining boomtown once housed over 3,000 people. Now, the population is two.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

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

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

The institution is sitting on a goldmine of 21,000 paints, varnishes, pigments, and primers preserved for posterity.

The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.