This shop is named for a runaway elephant who smashed through its doors, stole some peanuts, and spent five days on the lam.

This museum collects over a century of automobile history including the iconic car from The Muppet Movie.

The first artificial white water river course in North America cuts right through an Indiana city.

The home used in just a few seconds of film that came to define the setting of a hit sitcom.

This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

A historic blockhouse and trading post give a glimpse into the early colonial history of South Carolina.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

A deteriorating 1990s Girl Scout camp in a beautiful lush park on Lake Ontario.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.