Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

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

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.