A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

The world's most elegant power lines.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

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

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

This glamorous old building is said to have inspired the Tower of Terror.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

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

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Thousands of tourists and residents in Cologne affix "love padlocks" on the Hohenzollernbrücke Bridge to symbolize their affections.

Fantastic views and thousands of love locks.

Carved fountains poignantly placed in parks and in front of special monuments.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

A moving memorial to the fallen and missing from WWI trenches.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

A rare example of World War I trenches from the British front.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.