The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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.

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

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

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

The chiseled jaw of this forgotten American hero still stands tall in a small Indiana town.

Once at the center of U.S. finance, the historic Trading Room was meticulously recreated piece by piece and rebuilt in the Art Institute.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.