High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

No building in the world leans as far as the so-called “Leaning Tower of Abu Dhabi.”

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

This former boomtown "island" is now submerged below Folsom Lake.

The only standing town in the United States that early Chinese Americans built for themselves.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A sparse, solitary sequoia still stands as a living tribute to the famous conservationist who planted it—but it's dying.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.