A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

Neo-cave art on the macro scale.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

This communist country can still appreciate its fragrant past.

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The Los Angeles flood disaster that took 400 lives and ended the career of William Mulholland.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

One of Hollywood’s favorite government buildings.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This famous bridge twisted itself into oblivion, but not for the reason you might think.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.