This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A speck of nature and art in one of San Francisco’s most notorious neighborhoods.

This restaurant features Native American foods from across the country.

The memorial to the victims of the Jonestown Massacre carries the names of 918 lost, including one name people wish wasn't there.

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

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

The tallest bridge in California was constructed for a project that was eventually cancelled.

The first U.S. town to secede from the Union, only to vote themselves right back in.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This wilderness hike to a waterfall has an unlikely beginning in suburban Reno.

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

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.