This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.