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

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

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

This iconic science fiction house still looks like something from the future.

No one is sure if the world's fourth-largest diamond had been found in a rubbish heap or was pawned by Napoleon's mom.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

From Nunavut to Tierra del Fuego, you won't find any lighthouse higher than this one.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.