The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

A land of debatable treasure.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Water of undetermined depth has attracted rare fish and cult leaders alike.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.