Louisville, Kentucky
Colonel Sanders' Grave
The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.
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Louisville, Kentucky
The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.
Davidson, North Carolina
The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.
Portobelo, Panama
A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.
Saint Andrews, Scotland
This bronze statue was erected to honor a small Scottish town's beloved stray cat.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Buried beneath the New Mexico sands are believed to be millions of copies of Atari's E.T. video game.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.
Trevor, Wales
The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.
Burra, Australia
A small Australian farmhouse became an international icon after appearing on a Midnight Oil album cover.
Sandown, England
This purpose-built dinosaur museum is shaped like a pterodactyl and holds fossils that were found in its very village.
Gosport, England
This colossal war machine is now a living museum dedicated to underwater warfare.
Lerwick, Scotland
During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.
Portland, Oregon
This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.
Kerry, Ireland
A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.
Totnes, England
Once a year a small English town gets together to chase oranges down a steep hill in honor of a legendary accident.
Ahmedabad, India
This restaurant is proud to be built atop a burial ground.
Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales
During this yearly Welsh swimming race, competitors tread through the fetid waters of a bog trench.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.
Amherst, Massachusetts
Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Sofia, Bulgaria
A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
La Pointe, Wisconsin
These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.
Horten, Norway
Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.
Sarasota, Florida
This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.