Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country's last wood bison.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

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

A classic gold rush hotel can be expected to pick up some ghosts along the way, and the Golden North is no exception.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This massive railroad spike celebrates the 1939 premiere of the movie “Union Pacific.”

One of the oldest operating hydroelectric power schemes in Australia.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

A preserved section of the Atlantic Forest is an important habitat for these critically endangered monkeys.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

This was once the home of Gahan's Saloon, Denver's most storied speakeasy.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.