While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

A music-filled, booze-soaked oasis in the desert.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Located on 420 acres in the high desert, this spiritual center is dedicated to the "science of the future."

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

These official units of measurement—including chains and perches—lie hidden beneath tourists' feet in a popular London hub.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This pedestrian walkway cuts through a cemetery and over several burial vaults.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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