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

A stunning cemetery famous for its extraordinarily delicate & lifelike mourning sculptures.

The gravestone of a delicate singer-songwriter bears a fittingly introspective epitaph.

Pay your respects to a folk-punk legend.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

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

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

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

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

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

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.