A century-old tradition has culminated in a small but singular collection of feline effigies.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

The profile of one ill-fated deacon was emblazoned forever on this church window during the Halifax explosion.

This historic cemetery stopped accepting bodies before many Canadian cities were founded.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."