A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

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

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

This massive Brazilian church is built like an angular, technicolor pyramid left by Mayans from the future.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

These towering cliffs jut dramatically from the middle of a barren desert.

A 19th-century fortress and collection of artifacts offer a tour of Saudi history.

Skyscraper powered by wind turbines attached between its towers.