A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

An abandoned lighthouse located on the cliffs of Barbados.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

A snake farm famous for its venemous varieties.

It's believed a local adventurer spent 50 years living inside this cave.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

An unusually European Pueblo church is actually the oldest Native American congregation in the United States.

At this gas station in the middle of the desert, a convenience store has been carved directly into the rock.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

A eight-foot-tall statue resides in the heart of Pennsylvania anthracite coal country.

Nothing to see here.