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

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

An unexpected homage to 90s celebrities hidden in a corner of Ibiza.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This 400-year-old tree is actually an immigrant from North America.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

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

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

An urban laboratory.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

One of the oldest Mexican restaurants in the United States air-dries its trademark beef in a dangling outdoor cage.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

The only National Monument ever to go missing for nearly 50 years then resurface in a dump.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A bizarre example of collective behavior resulted in thousands of shoe prints in Vegas parking lots.