A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A sign at the end of the Santa Monica Pier marks the traditional end of the legendary American highway.

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

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A petite white lighthouse perched on the ancient core of Stromboli Volcano.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This private skyway is filled with art and was expanded explicitly so that Hitler could appreciate a river.

This bronze boar's snout has been rubbed to a golden sheen by visitors seeking good fortune.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A modest museum in the final home of Italian poet and father of modern Italian, Francesco Petrarca.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.

Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.

These medieval skyscrapers dominate the skyline of this small Tuscan town.