The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

The de facto symbol of Copenhagen is this bronze fairytale which cannot seem to keep its head for very long.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

Specimens collected by the author of "Lolita" and self-taught lepidopterist are exhibited in his childhood home.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.