Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

The beloved dining spot stands at the cross-section of Hollywood and the Old West.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

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

The forgotten and tragic story of the thousands of female convicts forcibly transported to Tasmania is told inside the ruins of this notorious 19th-century workhouse.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

Bronze statues honor the brave explorers who passed through this Antarctic gateway.

A monument to a working class martyr.

These bronze sculptures sow whimsy by hamming it up on a pedestrian mall.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.