Strange rumors surround the artist who created these solemn metal guard dogs.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Apparently, Hell has waterfalls in Slovenia.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Historic fortifications form the boundary of Vatican City, but it’s not entirely surrounded by walls.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.