A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

This jail once controlled by the Japanese military now sits abandoned on a remote Pacific island.

Where hundreds of Japanese civilians committed suicide to avoid being captured by American soldiers during WWII.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

Pumpkin-like gargoyles and grotesques peer down from the rooftop of this unassuming apartment building in Illinois.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The first modernist church in Europe.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.