An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.