This monument remembers the first Japanese Americans forcibly relocated during World War II.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.