This little train station is forever immortalized in film history.

This former monument to an invented Iraqi victory was turned into a military camp during the subsequent invasion.

This road earned its macabre nickname after hundreds of Iraqi troops died along it in 1991.

Death comes to anyone who dares to touch this concrete column.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This unique museum cafeteria showcases the history and regional diversity of African American cuisine.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.