This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

This silent sentry in the crypt below a large Gothic cathedral is often knee-deep in water.

The highest peak in Wales is said to be the final resting place of a giant killed by King Arthur.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

The tomb of one of Scotland's bloody historic villains is a magnet for bumbling desecrators.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.