The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

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

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

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

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

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

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.