Largest Roman Catholic church in North America.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

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

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

A tourist attraction founded around a slumping cabin.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

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

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

Prone to disastrous fires, the city of San Francisco has the Guardian, a fireboat gifted by residents, to watch over them from the bay.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

One Greenland town turned itself into an open air sculpture gallery with the help of a series of traditional stone artworks.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

A forlorn fishing village on the coast of Labrador, full of shipwrecks and Spanish gold.

The city of Halifax still bears the scars of the largest explosion prior to the atomic bomb.