Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

The largest stone circle in the world has ended up bringing up more questions than it has answered.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.