Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

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

The astonishing collection of an infamous criminologist.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

A whale rib was used to advertise the store by the arch that offered exotic goods from far away.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Bordered by forest on three sides and the ocean on the other, the Great Dune of Pilat is the highest sand dune in Europe.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.