For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

In the back of a nondescript sports bar is a museum-worthy mural by legendary cartoonists.

This shop and studio is dedicated to the art of the book, from letterpress to bookbinding.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

The rustic cabin-like decor of this Arts and Crafts-style church reflects the love of nature central to its little-known theology.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Masterful ceramic fountain and map of the Pacific Basin.

Deco Modern sculptures of the people of the Pacific, cast for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

A World War II-era submarine is stuck in the mud in New Jersey.