Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Next to Salt Lake City's Assembly Hall stands a tribute to some unlikely heroes of early Mormon settlers.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

A stoic rock cairn is all that remains to remember one of the more brutal instances of frontier treachery in American history.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

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

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A fascinating museum near the birthplace of the greatest track and field athlete of all time.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.