This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

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

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

A restored 114-year-old railroad station heralded as the most photographed depot in the United States.

World's largest Christmas store.

This cheerfully-named branch of the Chicago River is the fetid result of years of blood, entrails, and meatpacking waste.

One of the few remaining relics of the meatpacking hub that made Chicago the "hog butcher to the world."

Direct, creative challenge to Mother Nature's winter wrath.

An early 20th-century fruit warehouse home of an artistic and cultural renaissance in northeastern Washington.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.