Venice's island of the dead.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

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

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

42nd story Pyramid shaped penthouse tops Seattle's oldest skyscraper.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.