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

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

In the "Danish Capital of America," a replica of one of Copenhagen's most iconic buildings.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Twisted girders are all that remain of an Icelandic bridge that was wiped out by a combination of volcanic heat and glacial floods.