A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A large AIDS Memorial Pathway art installation provides a moment for quiet contemplation in this public park.

Now a museum, once the site of the longest act of civil disobedience in United States history.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

These boots are made for selfies.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The longest spit in the United States ends at a lighthouse in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Every winter, water dripping from a pole creates an ever-changing ice sculpture.

This colorful, ornately-decorated cemetery sits next to a quiet cove known as "the beach of the dead."

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

Piled high inside this warehouse and coffee shop are salvaged goods that span every corner of the globe.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.