Ingenious bakery opens up the first Cupcake ATM at their flagship location in Beverly Hills.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.