Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world's largest chess board.

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

A large instrument played by the wind.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into...we can't find the words.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.