A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

Art and a pun, all in one.

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

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

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

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A living time capsule of the 1960s Richardson Bay water-front.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

Sitting atop San Francisco's tallest hill, a cross honors the victims of the Armenian genocide.

This painted marvel is San Francisco's 400-foot ode to urban biking.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A veteran Disney animator turned his gift for storytelling to a museum devoted to his love of a California city.

Two pillars set 10 paces apart commemorate the "last notable American duel."

One of the last remaining Carpenter Gothic churches is situated on a wildflower conservatory overlooking the bay.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

The beautiful behemoth is one of the largest trees of its kind in the United States.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.