Sunnyvale, California
Orchard Heritage Park
800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.
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Sunnyvale, California
800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.
Los Altos, California
The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.
Palo Alto, California
The world's most famous donkey lives in this pen.
San Francisco, California
A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.
Palo Alto, California
Gander at model satellites and telescopes in this scientific lobby.
Palo Alto, California
This small monument to the great inventor contains a time capsule and a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Stanford, California
The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.
Kyoto, Japan
One of Kyoto's oldest food establishments has supplied soba noodles to temple priests and the Imperial Palace.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.
San Francisco, California
A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
San Francisco, California
A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.
Potsdam, Germany
If you visit the burial place of King Frederick the Great, you'll likely find a couple of potatoes sitting on his tombstone.
Stockholm, Sweden
This pair of unsuspecting buildings are in fact the very first modern skyscrapers in Europe.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Pringy, Switzerland
Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.
Bourg-en-Lavaux, Switzerland
Swiss vineyards in a UNESCO heritage site.
Geneva, Switzerland
On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.
Kyoto, Japan
Visitors to this museum will discover that kaleidoscopes are much more than toys.
Osaka, Japan
This bathhouse includes an option to soak in radioactive water.
Incheon, South Korea
A pair of oily black spiders lurk inside South Korea's largest airport.
Kyoto, Japan
The home of Mario and his friends
Osaka, Japan
Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.