The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

This automated sculpture of two men peeing will spell out text messages with their micturition.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

There are lots of hands and feet stamped in the cement in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theater, but Mel left behind something extra.