This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

A statue based on a tragic Japanese nursery rhyme, commemorating San Diego's sisterhood with Yokohama.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

Marvel at this immense work of art that greets arrivals to the city.

This stone tower was built to protect Crete from incoming pirates.

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Order a boozy baba au rhum at the oldest patisserie in Paris.

Offal and flawless onion soup are on the menu at this restaurant that once catered to the workers of Les Halles.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

The last standing piece of a famous Honolulu landmark.

Take in a sweeping views of Guanajuato—and save yourself a hike up a steep hill—on this funicular.

Two historic and closed cemeteries, separated by a low income apartment building.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

This cathedral hides a sculpted dog that determines your fate and an unexploded shell from World War II.

This statue includes the molehill that toppled a king.

At the top of the hour, figures of the London department store's two co-founders emerge and bow to each other.