A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

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

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.