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A 40-foot waterfall hidden in a desert oasis.

Tucked away in a secluded canyon, this hidden hot spring’s thermal waters have been soothing soakers for generations.

Fossilized remains tell the story of the region’s past inside this small, unassuming museum.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Along a coast that sees the annual migration of humpback whales, a geological formation that takes the shape of a whale’s tail.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A magnificent menagerie of oddities, including taxidermy cryptids.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

A Swiss magician's vault of oddities.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.