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A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

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

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

An underwater city for the dead.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.