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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

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

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This grand mansion has starred in everything from Bones to Buffy.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.