Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

This opulent hotel has been visited by Spider-Man, Charlie's Angels, and the Ghostbusters.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

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 remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.