An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.

During the solar phenomenon "Lahaina Noon" this bendy, curvy sculpture forms a perfectly circular shadow on the ground.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

Museum of Fijian history, including its former tradition of cannibalism.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.