The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

A tribute to the Polish insurgents who fought in the failed attempt to end their city's Nazi occupation.

An artificial date palm stands as a memorial to Warsaw's Jewish community.

Special benches that play Chopin's music are scattered throughout his native city.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

This ancient Roman bridge and aqueduct still stands as a wonder of classical construction.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A crumbling island fortress that seems to be covered in a field of stone crosses but is simply incomplete.

This historic island prison holds one of the dungeons from the Count of Monte Cristo even though it is a work of fiction.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

This modern museum of Mediterranean culture is surrounded by a surreal concrete honeycomb.

Sky ships, planes, and portraits left as unique tokens of hope and thankfulness.