A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

The real faces of Venice beach captured on Romanesque columns.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

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

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.