An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

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.

Museum dedicated to the preservation of surf culture.

Oldest building in California still in use.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

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

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

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.