The southernmost outpost of the Russian Empire in colonial America.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Ruins battered by centuries of war and disaster offer a wondrous glimpse of medieval Ireland.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

A 16th-century fountain marks the site of a lost medieval cemetery once filled with mass graves.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.