Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

A mysterious shape catches the eye in this 16th-century painting.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

A fence constructed completely of skis on Monroe Street.

The Real LegoLand.

During World War II the Thorp building was guarded by the OSS, FBI, and US Navy because of the top-secret bombsight being produced there.

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

This secret gem of a toy store houses a rideable carousel populated with fantasy animals.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant