The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

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

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

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

"The only replacement for a DC-3 is another DC-3."

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

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

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An amazing collection of fantastic reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.