Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

After over 100 years out of service this landmark windmill once again turns as a symbol of Jerusalem's self-sufficiency.

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

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

Israel's premiere solar energy research facility provides energy to nomads.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The small alleys in Lübeck's Old Town are a result of medieval urban sprawl.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”