While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

Where the leftovers of love affairs can live on forever.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Formerly Fire Station No. 27, the museum is a hidden gem in the heart of Hollywood.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

9,000 square feet of vintage and modern mechanical toys, dioramas & sideshow curiosities.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.