The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The world's first purpose-built motor racetrack was destroyed by the outbreak of two world wars.

A medieval replica of King Arthur's legendary table, the Round Table hanging in Winchester Castle was decorated by Henry VIII.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This public pool is one of the last remaining lidos of the countless built in the 1930's as public works projects in the United Kingdom.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The magic's in the hole!

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.