One of California's oldest continually used high schools has an interesting history, both on and off screen.

A cityscape of burial tombs that you can easily lose yourself in.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A museum chronicling pioneer life constructed over Interstate 80.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

At this desert restaurant, meals are cooked in solar ovens.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

This stone was once used by druids to determine a person's innocence or guilt.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

A stone wall commemorates the legend of a ferocious dragon who literally got his butt kicked by a knight.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.