Woodside, California
The Mountain House
Nestled among towering redwoods on Skyline Boulevard, the Mountain House combines over a century of California history with a warm, rustic atmosphere that makes every meal feel like a getaway.
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Woodside, California
Nestled among towering redwoods on Skyline Boulevard, the Mountain House combines over a century of California history with a warm, rustic atmosphere that makes every meal feel like a getaway.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.
The Rocks, Australia
Converted into a time capsule-like museum, these terrace houses depict the living conditions of working class tenants from various eras.
Newark, California
From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Yachats, Oregon
There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.
Neskowin, Oregon
The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.
Otter Rock, Oregon
This coastal rock formation resembles a churning cauldron at high tide.
Tillamook, Oregon
This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.
Rockaway Beach, Oregon
Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.
Tillamook, Oregon
No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.
Granada, Spain
A statue of Granada's self-proclaimed "King of the Gypsies"
London, England
At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.
London, England
This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.
London, England
Hidden in the courtyard of the Victoria and Albert Museum is a little-known tribute to two celebrity pooches.
London, England
This striking statue brings a scene from the African savannah into central London.
London, England
The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.
London, England
London's amazing modernist public square that never was.
London, England
This statue of one of the engineers who created the London Underground hides a ventilation shaft for the tube lines that run under the street.
London, England
The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.
London, England
A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.
London, England
This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.
London, England
The ruins of a once-mighty medieval palace are hidden away in otherwise modern London