The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

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

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

A grotesque collection of wax limbs depicting the symptoms of venereal disease.

The rocky remains of an ancient Greek forest.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

Poseidon? No one seems to know.

These ruins in Volvi were once at the intersection of the Eastern and Western Worlds.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

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

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.