Amazing meticulous gardens of personal wood carvings, Hydrangea, Canna, and many other flowers.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This massive redwood tree has stood in Northern California for nearly 2,000 years.

It's not quite as old as its Roman appearance suggests, but this piece of infrastructure served Guatemala City for centuries.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This monument commemorates an aeronaut who allegedly flew a plane before the Wright brothers.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

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

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.