One of London’s rare Tudor-era buildings is a fate-defying gatehouse for a church.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This Alamo Square mansion is rumored to have hosted satanic rituals and other occult practices.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

A playing field for a popular French past time can be found tucked away in a quiet corner of Golden Gate Park.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

Home to one of the world’s largest collections of model yachts.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

This site is home to ancient petroglyphs and pictographs dating back to 6,000 B.C.

Thousands of people walk over this fantastic work of art every day, but how many notice it?

This highest peak in New Mexico is named after an explorer who had a habit of lending his monicker to peaks.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

The world’s largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.