A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

This statue honors a pillar of the early New Haven Black community.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Step into this whimsical art installation based on a popular picture book.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

These two 90-year-old statues were once part of a Japanese Shinto shrine.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

A mysterious monument covered in a binary code marks the heart of tech.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.