The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The solemn exterior conceals an opulent interior of this 17th century church.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

Home of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

These memorials built by an eccentric bachelor on the side of Interstate 5 cause both wonder and traffic accidents.

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

This bridge provides safe passage for squirrels.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A statue commemorating the heroic life of a Viking postman who was the Godfather of California skiing.

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

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

This 18-foot-tall steel lotus is a meditation on ecological crisis that originally appeared at Burning Man.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.