A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

Formerly the world's largest, this Willy Wonka-esque contraption runs 24/7.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

View the California coastline (and the home of Barbara Streisand) inch by inch with stunning, government-sanctioned aerial photography.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.