The animals wander freely amid this gorgeous stretch of nature.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A wonderful safe haven founded in the 1960s to rescue endangered monkeys from the pet trade.

This long unused shot tower on the Mississippi remains a point of pride for a small city in Iowa.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

At 1,732 feet above sea level, this spectacularly isolated yet surprisingly bustling bar is the highest pub in Britain.

This iconic high-rise residential block was one of the last to be built in the Brutalist style.

Legend says squeezing into this slender stone seat will make your wish come true.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

These planks were originally installed to hold the dead.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

This hilltop shrine is colloquially known as "Sex Mountain" for the ritual practices once conducted there.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This Javanese-Hindu temple from the 15th century is unmissable for anyone with even a passing interest in erotic art.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

Subterranean place of worship in Indonesia.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.