Mexico City, Mexico
Palace of the Inquisition
This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.
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Mexico City, Mexico
This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.
San Francisco, California
The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
Littleton, New Hampshire
According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.
Berkeley, California
The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.
Detroit, Michigan
Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.
Detroit, Michigan
To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.
Detroit, Michigan
Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.
Lafayette, Indiana
Tombstones carved to look like tree trunks are used for multiple generations of family members.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
This candy shop has been serving up sweets to the Louisville area since the 1850s.
Chicago, Illinois
The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Mexico City, Mexico
The ruins of the "place of the cloud snake" sit in the middle of an urban environment.
San Francisco, California
For nearly 50 years, this San Francisco nonprofit has been serving as a mix of recycling center and art school.
Port Costa, California
Where the polar bear watches over everything, and every drink is a double.
San Francisco, California
A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.
San Francisco, California
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.
San Francisco, California
A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.
San Francisco, California
The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”
San Francisco, California
Only hotel where you can legally launder money.