Palermo, Italy
La Zisa
This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.
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Palermo, Italy
This Arabesque Italian castle was built with a primitive, if ingenious, air-conditioning system.
Bern, Switzerland
This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.
Los Angeles, California
Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
Los Angeles, California
Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.
Los Angeles, California
High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.
Los Angeles, California
Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.
Los Angeles, California
The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.
Los Angeles, California
Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.
Los Angeles, California
Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.
Los Angeles, California
Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.
Castelnovo ne' Monti, Italy
An Italian geologic wonder that served as the inspiration for the landscape of Dante's hell.
Riegersburg, Austria
A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.
New York, New York
A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.
New York, New York
New York's oldest magic store.
New York, New York
A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.
New York, New York
A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.
New York, New York
A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.
New York, New York
One of the last few places in Manhattan that employed a pneumatic systemic keeps it on display.
New York, New York
A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.
Cambridge, England
Numberless clock creates a meal of time for the dreaded, insectile Chronophage.
London, England
Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.