This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Hidden beneath the famous St. Peter's Basilica is a veritable city of the dead that may hold the remains of St. Peter himself.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A full figure 4th century incorruptible saint lies in a glass coffin in Croatia.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

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

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

This California tree is the single source of the state's entire orange industry.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Smooth basaltic rocks tell a tale of ancient glacial waterfalls.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.