A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.

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

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A scattered trail of street art adds a pop of color to the city's stark structures.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Displaced highlanders would take shelter from the wet Scottish climate under the large walled bridge at Glasgow Central Station.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

This street has over a half-dozen names, all at once.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

One of downtown Berlin's last reminders of its Communist past.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.