An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

Two men, two visionaries of Venice Beach, one little hotel that smells like cookies.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

Giant nude woman of Tijuana is also the artist's home.

This monastery set over a holy cave contains the oldest known painting of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

An abandoned bus station transformed into a museum dedicated to the history of Greyhound Lines, in the place where it all began.

Where one of America's greatest songwriters lived before he was Bob Dylan.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

This vintage "streetcar boat" lay at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka until the 1980s.

Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

A curious cave church carved into the face of a cliff.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

The only known mosaic depicting the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos.

A closer look at this somewhat faded hotel by the Corinth Canal reveals the architectural undertones of a genius.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

This open air archeological site houses almost as much wildlife as it does classical religious artifacts.

Dedicated to the god Dionysus, this theatre was used for both musical and theatrical performances.