An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.

A museum celebrating mola textiles, the intricate art of the Guna people of Panama.

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

This softball diamond has a culture all its own.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

A local workshop makes Japanese-style paper out of everything from papyrus to pineapple leaves.

This whimsical home made entirely from clay is basically a giant piece of pottery.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

A monument to the egos of two railroad magnates that fell into decline along with their careers.

This prison-turned-museum is a remnant of the Old West's grizzly, violent past.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.