It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

Eclectic collection of dark and macabre antiques.

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

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

A statue in the center of Dublin dedicated to one of their favorite sons of rock & roll.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.