Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This (occupied) house is 10 feet wide and full of spite.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A restored 1920s cascade stairway provides one of the best views of Oakland's Lake Merritt.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

One time home to turn of the century explosives, now hidden under the Bay Bridge.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The most confusing clock in New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.