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

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

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

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

International delicatessen has been owned and operated by the same family for more than 110 years.

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

Pillars made of 700 pieces of luggage climb to the ceiling of Sacramento Airport's baggage claim.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

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

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

With statues of Nelson Mandela and Harvey Milk this monument has been called the Mount Rushmore of California.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.