A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

One of only five observatories in the world built to measure the Earth's wobble.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.