This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

A small structure built from used railroad ties honors the short term of America's 20th president.

Celebrating the greatest pugilists the world has ever known.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This 18th-century sundial was designed to calculate the date of Easter each year.

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

The narrowest street in Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

An extraordinary final resting place full of oversized art, amazing statues, and dead celebrities.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.