A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

This Puget Sound military post has a long, turbulent history as a gateway to the Pacific.

The four tall pillars once marked the entrance of the historic Seattle church that fought for women's suffrage and civil rights.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.