The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

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.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

A towering sculpture, likened to an adult toy, sparked local and national debate.

Dedicated to the "father of modern education," this museum documents the history of education in Czechia.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Joe Cocker's 1988 concert at this site in East Germany marked a changing sea tide that would eventually lead to reunification.

An exquisite panometer representing Dresden as it was from 1695 to 1760.

When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.

This unique exhibit "Dialogue in the Dark" reverses roles as the visionless become guides and the sighted become ‘blind.’

An unconventional and naturalistic sculpture depicting the artist marking his territory on an exterior faculty wall.