From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

The former home is said to be haunted by the ghosts of the beloved mayor and his wife who lived here.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.