A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Purdue students would lean over this iron fence to skirt campus rules against smoking and courting.

Historians and hobbyists head to this former French outpost for the annual Feast of the Hunters' Moon.

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A small collection of iguana-infested ruins hides amid Cancún's bustling hotel zone.

An island graveyard with spectacular views of the Caribbean.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This preserved village shows the modest lifestyles of the area's 19th-century Chinese gold miners.

These two delightful animal-shaped buildings host a visitor center and wool shop.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."