This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Inside this library, the history of Los Angeles is retold through a mural.

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

A sculpture of the famous photograph stands on San Diego's "Greatest Generation Walk."

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Legend holds that this knife serves as a chilling reminder of the deadly rivalry between two local builder brothers.

Beautiful portraits of the artist's children and his amazing stained glass windows in the Art Nouveau style.

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

Too much gossip or just missing curfew could land you in here for a couple of days.

A large boar commemorates the city's founding and the origin of its name.

Down this Cracovian street resides a plaque with a stark message about the city's air pollution.

Remnants from a time before electricity.

Krakow's own version of the Hollywood Walk of Fame.