This Seattle museum displays the history of the telephone through an impressive collection of telecom equipment.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

An unassuming nature trail winds through dozens of tiny houses built for the wee people.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

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

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

An underwater city for the dead.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.