An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

The other side is actually green.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

The courtyard of this small Marinid madrasa is a dazzling example of intricate Islamic architecture.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The oldest known university in the world is in Fez, Morocco.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

The decaying adobe remains of an old homestead are just off the beaten path in Joshua Tree National Park.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A memorial for the mustachioed record-setting runner.

This church on a Tohono O'Odham reservation has stood since 1797.

Balconies that have a most unusual accent.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.