This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

An old soap company building now houses one of Minneapolis’s oldest independent non-profit art galleries.

The only arched bridge made of stone on the entire Mississippi River.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

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 toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

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

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

Beautiful mosaics cover the first stations opened on New York City's newest subway line.

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

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A much-maligned monument to teetotalism.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.