A 1920s speakeasy that had rum runners racing up and down the shores of California.

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

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

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

Massive prehistoric mammals used these stones as oversized scratching posts.

The only visible piece of San Francisco's most famous shipwreck.

A massive ultra-modern church presents a science-fiction view of Catholicism's inclusive future.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Taste the white whiskey that the United States' first president once distilled and enjoyed.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.