Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

The graveyard is filled with beautiful funerary art and boasts breathtaking views of Florence.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A priest with no formal artistic training used basic house paint to create gorgeous religious scenes inside this historic church.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Two mammoth statues inspired by equally tall tales lure tourists to this roadside attraction.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

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

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.