A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

A sculpture outside London's oldest cathedral honors the Mohegan chief who died while petitioning the king.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's largest porcine hairball sits in a collection maintained by Benedictine monks.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.