The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The only visible reminders of an elaborate engineering project that kept the tower from reaching the tipping point.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.