Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

This unusual lava tube spouts seawater during high surf.

These flying foxes dangle from the trees around the library like fuzzy black fruit.

This dangerous-looking suspension bridge may have been too unstable to remain open.

This statue of an eagle taking flight welcomes visitors to Langkawi.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

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

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The world's oldest known salt mine.