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

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A coin-operated washing machine turned jukebox, complete with an outdoor dance floor.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

A grumpy old water goblin guarding an old mill on the Devil’s Stream in Prague.

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.