This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

A wood-and-steel sculpture garden featuring an artful interplay of nature and machinery.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

A veritable variety of odds and ends.

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

This UFO landing strip was created by a charitable Wyoming city that was worried about residents of Jupiter.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.