This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

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

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

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

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The world's longest known cave system.

This historic oak tree has been around for over 300 years and might last for 300 more so long as it doesn't fall apart first.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Public works and national defense project meant to carve a canal all the way across the state of Florida.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.