Gargantuan pots of slow-cooked lamb, noodles, and red wine feed everyone at a Mallorcan harvest festival.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

An arresting arch punched straight through a mountain provides one of the most scenic spots, and challenging climbs, on the planet.

An abandoned Indian-inspired mansion.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

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

The first safe in this California town had to hold all the gold.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."