Why trying to get lost in the old quarters of Essaouira may be harder than you think

This was the first ever National Lakeshore, established in 1966.

On the site of a former Army ammunition plant, bison now roam a restored sea of grass.

The only Chicago bridgehouse open to the public contains a museum devoted to the Chicago River.

This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

Orozco’s fiery mural that brought the Mexican Muralist Movement to the U.S.

This canyon is named for a unique geologic formation where the river vanishes underground near the mouth of the canyon and reappears farther down.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

Miners in Michigan developed a taste for Cornish beef pasties, which this roadside stand has been selling since 1947.

This free sculpture garden is home to over 90 artworks and installations from artists around the world.

The last remaining vestige of a popular 1999 public art display.

A section in the cemetery mostly for circus performers, including victims of the famous 1918 Hammond Circus train wreck.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

After an Illinois church was struck by lightning and burned down, Frank Lloyd Wright designed this replacement.

A stretch of highway even lonelier than the so-called "Loneliest Road in America."

A journey to a hand-crafted island involves a trip across this lattice bridge.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

Beautiful scenery, history, science, and physics come together in this remnant of shipping lore.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

Colorful, cheeky signs spill out of legendary New Orleans folk artist Dr. Bob's Bywater studio warning you to "Be Nice—Or Leave."

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

One of the finest examples of a black soil prairie that was barely saved by the Great Depression.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.