When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The giant stump of the once towering cottonwood where Ute people held tribal meetings.

Climb to the top of this spiritual tower, and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views.

This ghost town was once a cult-like religious utopian settlement.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

These elevated trucks were put in place as a middle finger to The Man, but are now considered folk art.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A copy of the famous statue can be found in this Florence piazza, along with one of the most breathtaking views of the city below.

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

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

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