Rare moles meet activism at this Oaxacan eatery.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

Small monoliths of several varieties of stone sit alongside a wooded path in the Bronx.

The longest continuous underwater road in North America was built at the insistence of Franklin Roosevelt.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.