Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

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

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

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

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

This picturesque horseshoe weir was first built in the 1600s to prevent flooding in the town of Bath.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A replica of the steam engine that hauled Queen Victoria's Royal Train is on display at Windsor.

The late, disgraced President's embalmed remains displayed for all to see… theoretically.

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.