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Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

Fascinating military history, awe-inspiring wildlife encounters, and endless outdoor adventures draw people to this sprawling park.

Step back in time at this immersive historical village.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

Hidden tunnels have sheltered the people of a Czech town for centuries.