The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

This Oakland fairytale kingdom, fiercely devoted to childlike whimsy, was an early inspiration for Disneyland.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

One man's prolific, decade-long quest to turn trash into artistic treasure.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The mummified right fist of a 1,000-year-old saint-king sits inside an ornate golden reliquary.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.