Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

Magnificent New Deal Murals evoke a time when New York City harbor was one of the world's greatest and busiest ports.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

This landmark building is now a vibrant performing arts space with musical acts from around the world.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Folk art crafted from discarded vegetable crates.

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

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

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.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.