These 20-foot sculptures will help guide you from the local train station to the local sculpture garden.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

This cabin from the 1850s is one of the first structures built by Chinese immigrants in California.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

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

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.