This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Drink a Guinness under the wings of Reagan's retired Air Force One in his presidential library.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

This futuristic German television spire is actually the world's largest digital clock.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

Unsurprisingly, Holland is home to one of the most magnificent flower gardens in the world.

The 20-mile causeway that separates the Netherlands from the sea.

Spain's largest bullring offers a unique glimpse at architecture and history.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

A contemporary art installation housed within a Gothic cathedral.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

This neoclassic cathedral also houses what is believed to be the oldest clock in the Americas.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.