Where Nor'easters go to die.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

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

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

This ancient mountain monastery welcomes all manner of faith in an effort to keep Christians in Syria.

This ornate mosque is said to hold the remains of Muhammad's granddaughter beneath its dome of pure gold.

The oldest still-existing mosque in the United States sits in a remote prairie in North Dakota.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.