The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A king's pet, a pope's gift, an artist's inspiration, and a tragic shipwreck.

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

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

One of the deadliest American air disasters is nearly forgotten in Brooklyn.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.