An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An exquisite Baroque church in Vienna's old town.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

An underground city of salt.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.