At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

This once prosperous community was home to European settlers and the Ojibwe.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

An abstract monument to a symphonic composer.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

A cathedral resurrected from the ashes of one of Europe's greatest urban fires.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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