Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

Brick walkways weave through more than 500 palms and cycads, representing 150 species from around the world.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This saltwater swimming pool, which is the last of its kind in the United States, is slowly crumbling within sight of multiple high-end beachside hotels.

An ode to one of the first concerts broadcast via satellite.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

Picturesque and haunting, these 160-year-old stone ruins on top of a bluff are the only remains of a settler's legacy.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

Paranormal activity on the great lakes.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

For patriotic Russians, this memorial honoring the Soviet soldiers who died liberating Berlin in 1945 is the most sacred location outside of Russia.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

The birthplace of a titan of American cinema.