The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

Slum Settlement Filled With Mountains of Garbage.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

This "synagogue" is not what it seems to be.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.

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

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

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

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

World's only nuclear reactor operated by liberal arts undergraduates.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.