The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.

The former hotel where Tesla invented the radio.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Great place to have a drink and a bite to eat in an atmosphere laden with New York's Bohemian past.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A white oak with property rights.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

The liveliest ghost town in the state.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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