Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Walk along the medieval fortifications that have been protecting Tallinn since the 14th century.

The first and only troll museum in Norway has interactive exhibits, friendly staff and a small gift shop.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

The 7,000-year-old calcium carbonate formation creates a magnificent natural bridge.

Erosion and various mineral deposits give this striking canyon its distinct color and soft appearance.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.