The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A series of tiny artificial islands rich with produce bob atop the surface of the lake.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.