A chessmaster's dream destination.

The eccentric and colorful pavilions of Tower Grove park are a beloved and overlooked symbol. 

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

A monument on the pavement marks the spot where two cultures that shaped Sarajevo come together.

Established in 1937, the oldest candy shop in New York City boasts a rainbow-colored inventory that would make Willy Wonka envious.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

These enormous, stern-faced statues greet visitors with lanterns, and sometimes costumes.

During the Soviet era, the spire of this longstanding church was used as a radio transmission tower.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

This statue points to another unusual companion work of art often overlooked by visitors.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

In the middle of a Vienna square, Roman ruins dating back some 2,000 years are on display.