The author's beautiful and historic home is also a fully functioning goat farm.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Thomas Edison's home and final resting place also boasts an impressive garage, where some of the earliest electric cars are on display.

Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

This bare tree might not have leaves but it is constantly clothed in festive decorations left by mysterious local benefactors.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.