The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The "Prussian Versailles" that is as glorious today as when it was built.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.