"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

This quirky countryside store is known for the goats that hang out and eat the grass on its roof.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

An old-timey medicine shop that once served Chinese laborers during the Gold Rush is still open for business to this day.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The remains of an attempt to carve a thriving metropolis from the forest, and once home to the first revolving door in North America.

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

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

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

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.