Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A multimedia experience that chronicles the atrocities of racism.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

One of the last remaining buildings from one of Calgary's earliest businesses.

This massive mall has hundreds of shops, an amusement park, and a history of deadly amusement attractions.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Walk through spectacular aisles of hanging meat and wagon wheel–sized cheese at the world's largest wholesale food market.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.