A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

These large-scale reproductions of Mario Sanchez’s colorful pictures and murals feel like a walk around a small movie set, and also lead you down an imaginary “street” of past decades.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

An idyllic mineral hot springs facility with a more-than checkered past.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

A 17th-century bezoar, dirt from an infamous site, and other curios decorate this unusual bar.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

Carrying on the legacy of a short-lived experimental school tucked away in the mountains of North Carolina.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This 1930s log cabin began as a taxidermy museum but is now a popular country music venue.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Make a wish at what might be America's only Catholic shrine to a sinner.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.