This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The world's longest known cave system.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

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.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.