Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

Genesis of modern hydroelectric power.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.