The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A crumbling cathedral condemned by an earthquake.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

An electrical pylon under whose legs a normal gauge train can run.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

A painting in the historic Cathedral Basilica depicts Jesus and his disciples dining on a traditional Peruvian menu.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

The most confusing clock in New York.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.