This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

This public elevator links the lower city to the upper city of Salvador.

This 17th-century Portuguese fort now houses a nautical museum.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

The prehistoric home of an enormous ground sloth that once roamed Patagonia

Behold the uncanny sight of the Golden Arches—rendered in black.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Climb through the life of a Mexican hero as you ascend a 130-foot statue.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Climb and walk into the crater of one of the youngest volcanoes on Earth.

One of Mexico's rare urban natural parks features waterfalls and a working fish farm.

Once a Catholic mission, this small town tucked between the ocean and the mountains is now a magical spot for art and history lovers.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A 40-foot waterfall hidden in a desert oasis.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

A 19th-century Baja cantina that many say is the birthplace of the margarita.