The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

This lake-bound geographical marker sits at the point where three European countries intersect.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

New Plymouth, Idaho is the only U-shaped town in the United States.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."

A basement full of treasures lies beneath this inn that has worn many hats throughout its 140+ years.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Subterranean house made out of a grain silo, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.