Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Where a great scandal unfolded with a famous female revivalist at its center.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Built by one man in the '20s, this site is now a museum representing the Great Basin cultures.

A dry lake is what remains of a community founded on a real estate scam.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

The remnants of a failed socialist commune can still be found just off a California highway.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

This centuries-old mansion was the home of the noted 19th-century diarist Anne Lister (aka “Gentleman Jack”).

This Georgian architectural masterpiece is the only cloth hall left in Britain.