Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

This abandoned viewing platform has become a monument to unnecessary government spending.

Built for an exposition in 1915, these horticultural displays have stood the test of time.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Dozens of rockets and missiles are on display outside a testing facility in the Utah desert.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A tunnel with windows, so you don't miss out on the impressive views.

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

The pile of books behind the dignified writer gave the statue a most undignified nickname.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

Where Venice's gondolas go for a tune-up.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

US-50 in Nevada is known as "the Loneliest Road in America," but this earlier iteration of the route is even lonelier.

A military museum, art park, mausoleum, and architectural oddity all on one fascist's estate.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

The facade of this 16th-century building is decorated with carvings of 300 seashells.