A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

Monument to a suicide protesting the Soviet invasion.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.