Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

Not truly a ship nor a building, the Navy's first and last "landship" is now abandoned due to clerical issues.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.