This spectacular fault escarpment, a popular hang-glider launch point, extends some 30 miles long and towers about 2,500 feet over the valley floors to the west.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

During its heyday, 72 one-ton buckets from this dredge bore into the Powder River excavating vast gold deposits.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Visit the final resting place of a potential pirate at this historic burial site.

Rescued, handpainted reproductions of iconic Francisco Goya paintings, now in a hotel.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

The first musical instrument of its kind to be built in the United States—and the world’s tallest.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

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

The larger-than-life art installation at Tampa International Airport welcomes travelers to town.

Take a selfie with one of the area’s founding fathers.

The cardinal directions, set in stone.

This massive Art Deco-inspired mural was the world's largest augmented reality artwork at the time of its completion.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

In Tulsa's Oil Capital historic district, even the bus station is "fauxback" Art Deco.