Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

Two rocks in a perpetual kiss and one of "the most romantic spot in America."

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

The oldest continuously operating church in California.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

What is the Thing?

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

According to tradition this is the oldest church in Venice, but its actual age is a mystery.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.