A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A castle from the Holy Roman Empire that hosts traveling youth... in its stables.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The footprint of a frustrated devil in Munich's Cathedral.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Yo, Adrian!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.