Before he was forced to flee the country under Nazi rule, Albert Einstein spent his summers in this custom-built lakeside house near Berlin.

This giant, 83-year-old ship elevator is an engineering feat to behold.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

Leave a button on the jacket of this iconic Seattle clown.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.

This castle was once considered as an option for the Royal Family's alternate residence, but you may know it better from the 'X-Men' movie.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This unique museum focuses on the Siege of Sarajevo through children's eyes.

The room where the famous commander of the Catholic forces was murdered by Irish assassins during the Thirty Years' War has been reconstructed with many of his original possessions.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.