A famous alternative culture epicenter and where Joplin serenaded young hippies.

The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

An oddly shaped tower built to mark the acquittal of Admiral Keppel in a controversial 1770s case.

One of the last doorless, continuously moving elevators still in use in the U.K.

A brick foundation and piles of listing building materials are all that remains of this World War II POW camp.

A sinister pyramid in the Frari contains the heart of the famous neoclassical sculptor.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A bus with a butt and biceps to put Olympic athletes to shame.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.