Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A small canyon with petroglyphs and a seasonal waterfall, only a short hike from the remnants of old Route 66.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Both funky and traditional, it's the oldest of its kind in Indiana.

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

This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an eighth-century Buddhist master.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This botanical garden boasts sculptures, industrial ruins, and an endorsement from the Dalai Lama.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.