An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

A living archive of thoughts in motion.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

This boat represents the promise of undiscovered territory, a dream of hope, and progress and freedom for Iceland.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The oldest continuously operating farm in New York State.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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