A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

A porcelain company's former dumping ground, completely covered in pieces of collectible ceramics.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

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

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

The silent film master's legacy commemorated in all the right and wrong places.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

At this 1940s-era neighborhood favorite, you can still drink a cherry phosphate.

This 1920s masterpiece of French Quarter architecture hides a secret tunnel used by Albert Einstein.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

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

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.