On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The highest point in Florida is still the lowest high point in the country.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.