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

This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Learn about the history and craftsmanship of carousels inside this museum located in a former post office.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.