It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

For almost 100 years, this site of peace and spirituality has existed on the California coast.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

Every half hour the eye-rolling clock face sticks out its tongue to mock the good citizens of Koblenz.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

This historic Melbourne bullet factory is fully encased in a massive glass and steel cone.

This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.

This eagle-topped spire remembers the military commander who snatched up California for the United States.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

This remarkably simple jail went over a century without an escape.

Auguste Maïcon, a pioneer in French aviation, was born in this house in 1891.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.