When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Also known as the Square Colosseum, this building is a prime example of fascist-era rationalist architecture.

A detailed pachyderm supports Rome's smallest Egyptian obelisk.

The studio built by fascists in the hopes of "reviving the film industry" with the occasional propaganda film opportunity thrown in.

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

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

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

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

Stone monument honoring a town founder has a witch-boot shaped stain and a curse to go with it.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

This massive solar system model is sprawled out across Maine's suburban wilderness.

The largest axe on the planet contains a time capsule that seems like it may never be discovered.

The world's longest covered bridge is a quaint and incredible wooden tunnel.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.