San Francisco, California
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Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
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San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
San Francisco, California
Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.
San Francisco, California
A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.
West Sacramento, California
I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.
Sacramento, California
Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Solvang, California
California's oldest wind harp represents a historic piece of America's Danish history.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Milpitas, California
This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.
Cambria, California
A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.
Shandon, California
A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Heraklion, Greece
A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.
Heraklion, Greece
This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.
Athens, Greece
This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.
Athens, Greece
Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.
Venice, Italy
Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.
Verona, Italy
Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.
Jeju-si, South Korea
South Korea's only sex-themed park.
Paris, France
Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Prague, Czechia
Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.