Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

These markers are used to determine the ground stability of the Strip.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.