This unusual statue overlooking the Royal Mile has an interesting backstory.

This mundane post marks the old location of the city's main postal hub.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A million and a half tons of earth were used to create one of the world's largest land sculptures.

The largest timber structure in Europe.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This ancient oak plays host to carvings of magical elves, gnomes, witches, and other creatures prominent in local folklore.

Two tombstones associated with the much-beloved children's story.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

At Macon’s oldest cemetery two members of Allman Brothers are buried side by side.

The world's largest collection of ticks.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

This unassuming city park is home to three different types of Native American mounds.

This baseball diamond was home to the Rockford Peaches, a team featured in the hit film "A League of Their Own."

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.