Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Experience the "opulence, grace, and grandeur of Eureka's most famous Victorian Inn."

Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

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

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

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

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

Barely visible foundations remain where Stow Lake’s “observatory” once welcomed visitors.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This city park was once a lookout point for George Washington’s army during the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A little lighthouse in New York City, surrounded by mysterious stories of insanity-driven construction.