This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A rare opportunity to drive across the ocean floor.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Created as a coal reserve, it is today a natural park with stunning wildflowers, ancient marine fossils, and remnants of a 19th century mine.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

From a distance, this statue of an eagle looks like a giant chicken on a stick.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

A replica of one of the more than 15,000 civilian lookout towers that lined the U.S. coast during World War II.