The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

Eighteenth century house of the mysterious "Father of Raleigh."

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

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

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.