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

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

This 19th century cyclorama acts like an analogue time machine to a different era.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

Réunion Island's highest point is a 2 million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

Check out a shovel along with your Shakespeare.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Worker-owned cooperative and resource for those looking to lighten their ecological footprint.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

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

Where the alchemists dream of transmuting base metal into gold was actually achieved.

A pier that used to act as a busy ferry dock is now a decaying favorite of local fisherman and urban artists.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

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