Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The magic's in the hole!

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The former home of Dr. E.B. Henderson, also known as the "Father of Black Basketball."

This monument traces the segregation line that inspired the first rural branch of the NAACP.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The discovery of an old wall led to the creation of this fascinating museum about the city in the Middle Ages.