Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Giant instrument-shaped home in Fayetteville, Georgia.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

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

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The world's only known button museum.

The subtle science of a master molecular gastronomist.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.