Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

This now-deactivated naval base defended the Florida coast for centuries.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

Three generations of intrepid collectors display their curious artifacts in a homemade museum right next to the caves they discovered.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

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

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.