In the absence of a Chinese-language newspaper, for years the community posted daily updates on this simple bulletin board.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

Stroll the grounds built by murder, suicide, and dirty oil money at one of Hollywood's most filmed mansions.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.