The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

Curiously, this large sporting goods store features 14 wax representations of American presidents.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.

This amazing example of Valencian Art Nouveau looks more like a cathedral than a public market.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A statue erected in honor of the toadish nickname given to Jersey residents by the French.

An intricately decorated tiny place of worship.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.

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

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

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

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.