Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

Based in a former haberdashery, Florida’s oldest continually-operating bar has a rich nautical history and lots of local lore.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This piece of Australian modern art is part joke and part history.

A conservation sanctuary for rescued koalas, some of which were saved from devastating Australian bushfires.

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

The word 'wunderkammer' translates as 'wonder-chamber'. This Wunderkammer is both a museum and a retail store.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A massive metal lobster welcomes tourists to a roadside restaurant.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

The now-serene site of the largest earthquake ever recorded in North America.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.