A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

The short oil boom of Venice Beach, and its swift removal from the tourism-laden landscape.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

An entire town preserved as a historic landmark.

Apartment building was once posh playground to the Hollywood elite.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The walls of the iconic dome are hollow and have a secret stairway.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

This taxidermy horse was a Civil War hero.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.