A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

A miniature view of the park, caught in time.

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

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian badlands.

As if T-rex wasn't big enough, this Canadian monument is four times larger than the real thing.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

The largest whiskey stash on the West Coast survived the 1906 fires--but not without heroic effort.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.