Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

Years of neglect and nature took a toll on this 19th-century lighthouse.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

The magic's in the hole!

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.