Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

A French artist's vague warning hangs over Belleville.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

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

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

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

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

New York's oldest concrete structure is being preserved thanks to the gentrification of Whole Foods.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Historic Greenpoint theater turned roller disco, then chain pharmacy, and now Sweetgreen.

Neoclassical bank designed by NY architects Helmle & Huberty.

Known as the "Forgotten City" it was home to industry, riots, artists, squatters, and to one of the largest single disaster fires in New York City.