This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

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

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.