Historic marionette theater features thousands of handmade puppets and free cups of ice cream.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

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

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

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

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

This skeleton-filled altar piece served as a backdrop to one of the most iconic scenes in "The Sound of Music."

During World War II, Austria's oldest salt mine was used to store thousands of pieces of stolen artwork.

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

Dedicated to this region's early settlements and rich history of salt mining.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

This strange statue features a bust of the famous composer plopped atop a woman's body.

The beautiful, ornate weather station is the most popular geocache in Salzburg.