Denver, Colorado
Blue Mustang
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
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Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Wilmington, North Carolina
The only pachinko parlor in the United States.
Nashville, Tennessee
One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.
Nashville, Tennessee
Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.
Nashville, Tennessee
For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.
Stockholm, Sweden
A steel paper plane is all that remains of a crashed aircraft that caused an amazingly small amount of damage.
Stockholm, Sweden
A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.
Stockholm, Sweden
The final resting place of the man whose name has become synonymous with greatness.
Stockholm, Sweden
Several cannonballs of mysterious origins decorate two buildings in Stortoget's main square.
Stockholm, Sweden
A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.
Stockholm, Sweden
Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.
Stockholm, Sweden
Dine on food tied to Viking history and legend at this subterranean Stockholm spot.
Stockholm, Sweden
The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.
Stockholm, Sweden
It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.
Stockholm, Sweden
An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.
Newport, Rhode Island
Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.
Helsinki, Finland
An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.
Brussels, Belgium
A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
The sea urchin sculpture is an unusual commemoration of a New England town's seafaring history.
Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.
Laconia, New Hampshire
The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.
Lubec, Maine
This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.