The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A decommissioned military complex that's now a modern industrial park.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Recently restored menagerie of Victorian-era beasts.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Radioactivity still cause for concern at this urban explorer's paradise.

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

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

A monumental cross hides in the trees in Golden Gate Park.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.