The unique collection often goes unnoticed by visitors focused only on the archaeological objects.

This colossal ancient jaguar sculpture was used as a vessel for the hearts torn from sacrificial victims.

Dating back to the second century, vestiges of prehispanic mural paintings are found in this underground palace.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

This Moab institution functions as both a rock store and a small natural history museum.

An elaborate Mayan city shrouded in alien conspiracy revealed the tomb of Pacal the Great.

After becoming locally extinct, this esteemed avian now flies free in the forests around the ancient ruins.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

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

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Europe's highest peak is a key pillar of the Seven Summits mountaineering challenge.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

You must take the A train... to the last active cemetery in Manhattan.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.