Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

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

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A Roman-inspired temple once controlled half of San Francisco's waters.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Odd stone and concrete monuments in the "Poet of the Sierras" eclectic folly garden.

The famous animator's private station house and man-cave was the birthplace of imagineering.