These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

The scuba diving training facility was named for the steam that rises from the cave's chimney.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.