In rural Iowa, an imported 19th-century windmill overlooks an unlikely enclave of Danish culture.

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

This symbol of the French Revolution still stands where it was first planted during the 18th-century.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A haunting monument dedicated to the Royal Naval Air Service and the Fleet Air Arm.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

A park where people have been going to feed friendly pigeons since the 18th century

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.

On this Puerto Rican island, many abandoned naval ammunition bunkers sit open while a few have been padlocked by locals as personal storage.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Explore more than 175 years of saxophone history.