A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

The discovery of these rare, ancient artifacts led to the creation of a new museum.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

Sound travels strangely in this underground whispering gallery.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

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

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.

This impressive working clock made of 16,000 plants changes its flowers twice a year.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This Swedish astronomical clock was in storage for almost a century before its glorious workings were put on display once more.

Swedish skyscraper with a 90° twist.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.