A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Part of a WWII submarine is lurking outside the Washington Navy Yard parking lot.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A New Zealand couple's shell-adorned home living room, now on display at the Canterbury Museum.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

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

The "Seinfeld" diner.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.