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.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The unassuming structure was part of a Major League Baseball stadium.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

A Harvard-area eatery preserves the uncovered tiles of its century-old predecessor.

The grand marble structure next to the White House is Andrew Carnegie's temple to Pan-American diplomacy.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This amazing collection includes rare stamps from around the world, including fluorescent ones.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

A gorgeous mural outside a beloved D.C. restaurant pays homage to famous Black Americans.

An ancient tunnel in Jerusalem built to redirect water in the event of a siege is one of history’s great architectural innovations.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.