This fancifully decorated Victorian home in New York’s Hudson Valley is the only known fully domed octagonal residence in the United States.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

One of the tallest lighthouses in the world also serves as a monument to the fallen of World War I.

A never-finished memorial to the heroes of the Napoleonic War has become "Scotland's Folly."

A stone monument acknowledging Scotland's right to have a separate Parliament from the one in Westminster.

Now home to a drinking establishment, this building has a macabre history.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

This theatre and its amazing marquee harken back to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

A Buddhist retreat built on more than 100 acres of California Redwood forest.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

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

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.