After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

Wild West history in Hollywood style.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

A British pub embodies the spirit of a California legend.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

The world’s largest truck stop includes a barber shop, chiropractor, and a huge museum with antique trucks.

Once the largest winery in the world, this castle-like building now sits abandoned on the San Pablo/San Francisco Bay shore.

Abandoned landscape once home to "the world's largest winery."

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

The long, arduous journey of the stones of the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.