You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

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

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

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This rare vessel mixed luxury with labor before being converted to a museum and sometimes haunted maze.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

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

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.