A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Where royalty waits in the height of luxury.

A marine aquarium with an astounding variety of fish hides in the basement beneath the famous Palm House.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

This statue celebrating everyday life in Dublin has a few unsavory nicknames.

This massive monument has been telling the time for 150 years—at a slight angle.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This tiny train shuttles passengers to one of Northern Ireland's most spectacular sights.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.

A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A tribute to the Nirvana frontman hides beneath the bridge that was the singer's beloved hangout spot.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

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