A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

Here, visitors can swing with the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

A number of craters left by fatal mortar strikes have been filled with red resin to remember those lost during the Siege of Sarajevo.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

The burial ground of four Buganda monarchs was nearly destroyed by a devastating fire.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Where the White Nile River dramatically cascades between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert in Uganda.

One of the world's few mounted blue whales, its jaws are hinged open allowing visitors to descend into a lounge.