A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

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

This Hawaiian cattle ranch acts as a museum devoted to the island cowboys that predate the wild west.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Four giant movable street lights decorate this modern Rotterdam square.

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

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

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.