This 2,000-year-old Doric bridge is still open to pedestrian traffic to this day.

The world's tallest aluminum statue is also the world's tallest image of a winged Virgin Mary.

This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

Dr. Farid Mattar's Monument of Peace.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

A rescue facility that caters specifically to wolf-dog hybrids, and educates about these unique animals.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

Canada’s surprisingly controversial monument to Dwight Eisenhower.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.