An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

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

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This restored house is like a time capsule of the president's unconventional inauguration.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

A beautifully designed asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center with a ghost story or two.

A unique museum where guests can rent and operate a locomotive.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.