This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This riverfront statue honors the inventor of the first video games ever sold.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

The 20th-century church looks like a rustic version of the Sagrada Familia.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

One of the oldest of its kind.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

The strikingly modern structure stands out among the brick buildings speckling the Harvard Business School's campus.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.