Meant to be a lavish presidential home, the palace became a symbol of the fall of South Vietnam.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

Witnesses claim the Virgin Mary statue outside the church once mysteriously shed a single tear.

Artifacts and memories from the Vietnam war, located in a place that experienced it first hand.

You might recognize this historic Oregon mansion from its appearance in 'The Goonies.'

This often-overlooked ocean walkway was once considered an impossible fantasy.

In a quiet residential neighborhood, one restaurant fights to preserve heirloom corn, one tortilla at a time.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

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

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

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

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.