This San Diego museum, housed in a former Navy training facility, is dedicated to preserving women’s historic achievements.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

The neighborhood of Eagle Rock is named after a gigantic boulder with a shadowy surprise.

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.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

A 16th-century monastery boasts a lush array of plants native to Mexico’s most biodiverse region.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

World's largest bell sits on the grounds of the Kremlin in Moscow.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

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

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana's Morro Castle Historic Park.

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.