This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

This seemingly random 30-foot statue of an oryx in Qatar's capital was a mascot for the 2006 Asian Games.

The building is a gigantic piece of art inspired by the shape of a desert rose.

This fountain pays homage to Qatar's history of pearling, the primary industry before oil.

Qatar's oldest market can trace its origins back more than a century.

The big toe of this towering monument to a Croatian national hero is worn from years of superstitious rubbing.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

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

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

The Swiss artist's bulbous and overgrown shape-shifting sculpture controversially graces the center of Bern.