Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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 oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.