The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

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

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.