Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

This little museum has an exhibit devoted to the elusive forest denizens.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

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

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

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

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.