The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.

Bonsai garden in Oakland is curated by the first non-Japanese female bonsai master in the United States.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

A wartime promise becomes a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Giant money stones of Yap.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

An urban laboratory.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Oldest building in California still in use.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.