This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

This historic toy museum brings a little whimsy to a city not usually remembered for such things.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Unconventional site where the tracks of Zurich tramcars intersect.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.