Idaho City, Idaho
Idaho City
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
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Idaho City, Idaho
A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.
Rio Vista, California
Over 300 taxidermied animals in a Californian restaurant make for a taxidermist's dream and an animal lover's nightmare.
Davis, California
This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.
Sacramento, California
A fascinating and comprehensive look at the evolution of medical practice in the Sacramento Valley since the mid-1800s.
Sacramento, California
An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.
Oracle, Arizona
A reproduction of earth's many biomes.
Cave Creek, Arizona
This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.
Wortham, Texas
Cemetery officials are finally seeing that the Father of Texas Blues’ grave is kept clean.
Glen Rose, Texas
A museum showcasing fossils purportedly proving a 6,000-year-old Earth.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Weatherford, Texas
This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.
Waxahachie, Texas
Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.
Palmer, Texas
This unusual roadside attraction filled with handcrafted signage is home to a unique church.
Teuchitlán, Mexico
The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.
Islas Marietas, Mexico
A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.
Sayulita, Mexico
This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe
A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.
Soufriere, Dominica
Thermal springs underneath the seabed provide the heat and bubbles for these beachside natural hot tubs.
Delices, Dominica
This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.
Western Shore, Nova Scotia
Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
The final resting place of 121 victims of the RMS Titanic, 42 of which may never be identified.
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.
Baltimore, Maryland
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.