In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The tower was originally used as a chimney for the waste incinerator of St Johns Precinct and Market.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

The world's longest known cave system.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

Catch a glimpse of the elusive Peninsular bighorns right off of the desert freeway.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.