Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This gallery of prehistoric red ochre art lines the wall of a scenic segment in Utah's San Rafael Swell.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Construction of Barcelona's iconic (but controversial) church is expected to be completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

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

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.