A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.

Narrow slot canyons in a badland eroded into soft sedimentary rock provide an otherworldly landscape in this remote Nevada state park.

Located in the remote Monitor Valley, this travertine bowl contains a scalding pool of water.

An errant donkey ushered in a new era of mining in Nevada.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

Dedicated to nine marines from Massachusetts who perished during the Beirut bombings.

Designed to honor all those that work as nurses around the globe.

Commemorating the 1948 creation of the Jimmy Fund, a Boston-based cancer charity.

The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

This hotel was the site of major events in sports and radio history. It was also used as a detention center during World War II.

This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

What may be Boston's finest Art Deco building, located in the city's Financial District.

This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.

These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.