San Francisco, California
Murphy Windmill
Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
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San Francisco, California
Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
Naples, Italy
The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
San Francisco, California
The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.
San Francisco, California
A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.
Kodiak, Alaska
The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Vienna, Austria
Collection dedicated to funeral rites, equipment, and mourning rituals of the Viennese.
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.
Russia
Monastery complex at the location where bodies of the executed Romanov royal family were discovered.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Denizli, Turkey
Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.
London, England
Eclectic final resting place of the controversial explorer.
London, England
Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.
San Francisco, California
The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.
Berkeley, California
A storybook European village in Berkeley.
Antarctica
The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.
Rome, Italy
Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.
Northchurch, England
"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."
Detroit, Michigan
A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.
Detroit, Michigan
Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.
Ubud, Indonesia
Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.
Hereford, England
The largest known medieval map of the world.
Fars Province, Iran
Marked by the hand of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.
Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.
San Francisco, California
Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.