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The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

Pay homage to a preeminent matriarch, and the native Dena’ina people, at this sculpture installation in Anchorage.

Some of the world's largest produce comes from a region not known for agriculture

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

An ode to this small town's big film history.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This roadside installation gives travelers a chance to stretch their legs. Don't worry—it doesn’t bite!

A public, open-air art exhibit featuring world-renowned sculptures hides in plain sight on the outskirts of Orlando.

Welcome to a wonderland of Venezuelan empanadas.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.