Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

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

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Dramatic river bend surrounds a natural red-rocked pedestal.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years old and harbors many surprises.