A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Hidden out of public view in the National Library of Israel is a collection of "Stalag's," 1960s Nazi themed porno paperbacks written and consumed by Israelis.

Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.

Downieville's largest Gold Rush structure still standing has one of the longest bars in California.

This giant shopping mall still holds signs of its automotive past.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

These WWII-era murals were initially booed as a libelous portrayal of the American dream but have survived multiple attempts to have them destroyed.

A century and a half of research in the sciences and natural history, still going strong.

Thousands of turbines whir at at the origin of North American wind power.

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

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The Flatiron Building's storied West Coast cousin is a lot more into religion.

An enormous artwork that colorfully celebrates over 150 years of US military achievements.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.