This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

The location of the Bridge of Death and the Gorge of Eternal Peril in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

It would be a crime to miss it.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

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

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The small town of Poulsbo in Washington state is the next best thing to the Kingdom of Norway.

According to legend, you must remain completely silent while passing this man-made mound or suffer the consequences.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.