Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Trophy Room Project
An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
One of the last remaining movie theatres in the country that features a rear-projection system.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.
San Francisco, California
The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.
San Francisco, California
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
San Francisco, California
A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.
San Francisco, California
A miniature view of the park, caught in time.
San Francisco, California
Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.
San Francisco, California
The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.
San Francisco, California
A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.
San Francisco, California
Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.
San Francisco, California
The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.
San Francisco, California
A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.
San Francisco, California
One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.
San Francisco, California
This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.
San Francisco, California
This surreptitious shop is only open five hours per week.
San Francisco, California
This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.
San Francisco, California
The oldest lawn bowling club in the United States.
San Francisco, California
At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.
San Francisco, California
A classic advertising icon immortalized in regal bronze.
San Francisco, California
This print shop boasts one of the largest pinball arcades in San Francisco.