A storybook European village in Berkeley.

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

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

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

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Noble beasts perhaps, but not the Emperor's dogs.

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

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Dedicated to the European Sinti and Roma peoples murdered during the Holocaust.

An enormous roadside pan tells the story of a battle for pie glory.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.