One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

A striking geological formation in Southern California.

This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

An enormous boulder deposited by the Scabland floods lies in the Quincy Basin among a host of smaller boulders.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

This Boeing KC-97 tanker is now a restaurant for aviation lovers.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

Based in a former haberdashery, Florida’s oldest continually-operating bar has a rich nautical history and lots of local lore.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

This Prescott institution is widely considered the oldest bar in Arizona.

Sip on supernatural cosmic cocktails at this spaceship themed speakeasy.

This onetime gambler’s den was turned into a destination restaurant, reachable only by boat.

This restaurant feels like a trip to the Dominican Republic—right down to the beer served in a hollowed-out drum.

Costa Rican coffee and Venezuelan cuisine, made with painstaking attention to detail.

The whole world is cooking in one Kissimmee parking lot.

Where friendly staff pair your cigar with coffee and pan con lechon.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.