A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Vermont's hills are alive with the sound of music at this historic hotel.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

The flow from this waterfall sometimes comes out of springs below its rim.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

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

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

The world's only silo that was topped by two revolving restaurants has unfortunately been demolished.

A unique bridge with an equally unique view.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

Finally the worlds of UFO enthusiasts and beef jerky lovers have come together in this roadside shop.

The unusual patterns in this rock formation result from two distinct modes of weathering.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.