A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This London plaque marks the spot where David Bowie's famous alien made his debut.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Yo, Adrian!

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.