World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

Built in 1785, this residence is the oldest stone house in Georgia.

An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.

A grassroots community effort in the 1970s led to the creation of this beautiful garden full of delightfully whimsical exhibits.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

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

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest dam in the world.

A popular rock that acted as a waymarker for American pioneers.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).