This strange bovine gargoyle is said to have been put in as a passive aggressive form of revenge.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

These subterranean storage areas hold emergency water reserves.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

These bronze pamphlets remember a remarkable group of Germans who fearlessly opposed the Nazis in the very center of their power.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.