The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

A young botanist's horticultural vision realized through a lifetime of planting, tending, and collecting seeds.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.