This state park was once an important Native American cermonial center.

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

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.