Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Elaborate tile work in this railway station tells the story of Portugal.

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

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

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

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.