A heritage park that explores the history and ecology of Whangārei.

A New Zealand communications tower stands as the tallest structure in the Southern Hemisphere.

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.

A massive trilithon nicknamed "Stonehenge of the Pacific."

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

Originally meant to hold a statue of King William IV, this support sat empty for years. Today, it hosts a rotating cast of public artwork.

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

This tiny alleyway is now a shrine to a subculture riot between the mods and rockers.

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

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

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

This demon atop the Notre-Dame de Paris looks utterly bored.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.