The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.

A statue of the owner stands outside of this museum, once the most popular brothel in town.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Make it an offering.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

You would never come across this tiny green oasis if you didn't know it existed.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

Christ's blood allegedly preserved in a Belgian town.

This interactive sculpture allows visitors to leave a message in case a friend passes by.

This heavily worn bas-relief was once an honored fertility symbol.

This legendary giant, born from vegetables, terrorized townspeople and cheated local children in games.

This former guildhall with a bacon-like exterior is now home to a museum covering 600 years of Antwerp's musical history.

The legendary giant's severed hand sits on Antwerp's popular shopping street.

According to this bar, God gave an “11th commandment” to Antwerp: Thou shalt drink beer.

A man throwing a giant severed hand towers over Antwerp’s main square.

This statue dedicated to the story of a Flemish boy and his dog was relatively obscure in Belgium, but a cult sensation in Japan.

Most prolific publishing house in the 1600s open to the public.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.