This artistic fountain display pays homage to this area's theatrical history.

An interactive exhibition space dedicated to the kinetic sculptures of Swiss artist Jean Tinguely.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

The cutest way to stay safe in traffic.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

Atop this former dutch railway office sits an interstellar work of art.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

The grave of the famous painter is marked by a simple stone in the ground.

A helicopter memorial commemorating what was once the only way to access this West Berlin exclave.

A space-grade telescope mirror lies discarded in the shrubs.

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

This spectrum of a star was observed by one of the world's most accurate spectrographs. 

A historical observatory still in use by modern astronomers.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

These 250-year-old wagon tracks are a lasting sign of Dutch migrants crossing the mountains.

The last remnant of a controversial statue at Cape Town University.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

From atop a hill at the center of Cape Town, a cannon has been signalling the time since 1806.

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

This arch made out of whale bones is a remnant of South Africa's whaling history.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.