L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

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

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.

A statue of the Soviet leader still stands in a quiet corner of Estonia’s most Russian city.

The hidden offices underneath Memorial Bridge have been locked up since 1976.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.