An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

This Italianate house was the childhood home of the prominent Canadian painter, Emily Carr.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.

A small gallery in the home of the founding father of Mata Ortiz pottery.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.