Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The ruins of this medieval castle in Northern Ireland have inspired artists from C.S. Lewis to Led Zeppelin.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

One of the first skyscrapers in Santa Monica, and a famous getaway for the Hollywood elite of then and now.

San Francisco's first World's Fair, dedicated to the wonders of California.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

California's largest steel arch bridge.

The world's first motel is now an administrative building for an apple farm.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The peaceful gravesite of a rugged wild west gunman echoes the touching story of his last days.

America's oldest Italian restaurant is a San Francisco institution.