This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

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

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

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

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.