Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

An 11th-century runestone decorates the halls of Terminal 2 of this Scandinavian travel hub.

Stockholm's tiniest statue is of a small boy looking at the Moon.

Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A geological mystery on Camelback Mountain.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

This exaggerated sculpture resembles a well known feature of Vancouver:

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

This historic Victorian hotel has a scandalous history of affairs and murder.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A remote crossroads honoring a fallen talent.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.