This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Art Deco stylings conceal the true nature of this bridge.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

The last remaining colonial-era Italian church in Old Goa.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

In the heart of Medellín, an artsy urban complex sets the stage for demonstrations and protests.

Two identical statues by Fernando Botero, one blown to pieces in a terrorist bombing, the other donated as a gift for peace.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

The colonial city's social history is reflected in its fanciful door knockers.

Three hundred illuminated pillars form an “artificial forest” in Medellín.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.