A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.