Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.