The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

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

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

Worm salt and other local ingredients are on the menu at this cult favorite ice cream shop.

Now owned by the National Park Service, this location was once home to illegal boxing matches.

Here, exhibits come with a side of edible history.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

In Little Caribbean, an ice-cream shop serves up regional flavors, including soursop, Irish moss, and "greatnut."

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.