The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The cinder cone volcano with a less than complimentary name.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

A meteorite-bounded town in Bavaria.

The world's tallest church tower reveals a spectacular view to anyone up to the task of climbing the daunting staircase.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Originally envisioned by King Ludwig II to rival Versailles, Herrenchiemsee's "New Palace" remains half-gilded for lack of funds.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

One of the final grand railway depot hotel complexes is slowly being restored to its former glory.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.