The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.

For more than 150 years, this cemetery has served as the final resting place for many members of Wilmington's Black community.

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

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

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

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

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.