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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

Founded in 1961, this comic shop is said to be the oldest in the world.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

The bridge is a secret gallery of discarded gum that has been transformed into miniature masterpieces.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A giant snail sculpture looking longingly at the German traffic museum.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

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

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

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

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

This enormous censer uses a pulley system installed over 400 years ago.