Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle's uniquely modern Central Library.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

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.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.