This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

The graffiti-covered remnants of a former triangulation station are balanced precariously on this California peak.

A 1914 beaux arts auditorium that sat shuttered for 20 years, restored and reopened in 2026

Antiques by the Bay.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

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

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.