The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.