One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

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

The conquistador's former fortress is the oldest preserved colonial building in the Americas.

These sacred Mesoamerican ruins feature peculiar petroglyphs hidden in the stones.

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."