The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The sun acts as a key that only fits this giant keyhole twice a year.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

A bigger-than-life pun that has become a beacon of altruism.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.