One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The hundreds of movies and television shows shot in this high desert town are commemorated in a unique museum.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Semaphore saints, a golden dragon's head, and a stone carved with religious warnings all call this cathedral home.

Follow the original medieval paths that wind through this intriguing section of the city.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This Scottish graveyard is the final resting place of the man who inspired the character Ebenezer Scrooge.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The final resting place of American icon Buffalo Bill, and a museum that aids in telling his tale.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The iconic remains of the original Academic Hall that burned down in 1892.

The obelisk meant to mark the founding father's grave at Monticello is actually on the University of Missouri campus.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.