Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

This Industrial Age architectural and engineering gem helps visitors and residents alike traverse Lisbon, “The City of Seven Hills.”

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

If all members were present at the table, a sixth of the world's wealth would be under the same roof.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A nerdcentric group and creators of the Nerd Prom.

The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The world's longest known cave system.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.