Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

North America's largest accredited model railroad museum.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The freeway that never was.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling) themed taco shop.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

The martyr's wax-enhanced skeletal remains lie preserved in a glass case in the Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.