The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Limestone caves with spectacular showcase chambers.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

Not only is this nature preserve the largest protected freshwater island on the East Coast, but it’s also a stronghold of Gullah living.