A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

This enormous banquet-themed artwork honors over 1,000 notable women throughout history.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

This unassuming tree stump reportedly traces its roots to the famous pharaoh queen's reign.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Flamboyant architecture from the turn of 20th century.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

A statue of the legendary Celtic warrior queen who fought the Roman invaders stands in one of the cities she once destroyed.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.