This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

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

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This Indianapolis landmark offers a secret panoramic view of the city. 

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

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.