The world's largest bust sculpture celebrates the Hindu deity, Shiva.

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Some Moscow residents once claimed the bizarre, contorted mass of metal on top of the building was used to manipulate minds.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A memorial to a giant seabird that was hunted to extinction.

A man has revenged his true love's betrayal through tears and stone genitalia.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

One man's fascination with Turkey led to this backyard mini-city.