The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

This old-fashioned roadhouse's quirky neon sign is as famous as its enormous dumplings.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

This macabre shop, filled with art, oddities, and taxidermy is hidden in the heart of the French Quarter.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

Inside this shop, visitors are treated to a unique blend of natural history and art.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.