This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

A dramatic coastline that’s home to a rare pine tree.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

A cluster of cylindrical apartment buildings nod to the city’s vegital past.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

This ferry carries passengers across the Rhine propelled by no engine or paddles but by the river's current.

Beautiful Victorian mansion on Cardiff's outskirts was once the family home of a South Wales coal mining dynasty.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

This Cardiff Bay landmark traces its history back to when Norwegian ships transported coal from Wales.

This Las Vegas casino boasts one of only three spiral escalators in the United States—an engineering wonder.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

At the base of the Spring Mountains, a unique nursery packed with desert plants.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

This Soviet-era athletic and recreation facility is the highest ice skating rink in the world.

Beatlemania is still going strong... at least in Kazakhstan.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.