Salute the leader of the proletariat.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

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

On a wall in linear London, a plaque hangs at the high water mark of one of the worst floods in fictional Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

The home of one of California's most important horticulturalists wilts amidst a lovely park.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Providing the soundtrack to the golden years of the Seattle grunge scene.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.