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

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

This beautiful and unmissable little museum is full of fascinating artifacts from Mesoamerica's great civilizations.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.