Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels scores of people have died on its slopes.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.