Looking for a unifying history, Uzbekistan finds its answer in a 14th Century Turco-Mongol conqueror... despite the fact he wasn't Uzbek.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.