New York, New York
Macy's Wooden Escalators
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
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New York, New York
A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Fort Worth, Texas
A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.
New York, New York
A semi-scholarly approach to sex.
Washington, D.C.
Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.
Washington, D.C.
One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.
Washington, D.C.
Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”
Culver City, California
A modern day curiosity cabinet.
Christchurch, New Zealand
A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
The "Seinfeld" diner.
New York, New York
A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.
San Francisco, California
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
Berkeley, California
This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
Santa Monica, California
A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”
Los Angeles, California
An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.