The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Half of a house.

27-room home built with the fortune of a sugar magnate.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A quiet nook at the top of a little-known hilltop park named after California's first poet laureate.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

Twelve grave-faced marble angels guard the emperor's tomb at Les Invalides.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Despite attempts by local police to discourage it, Beatles-inspired graffiti has been a means for artists to air grievances for decades.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

This is one really big nut.

One of the last socialist halls still standing in the United States.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!