The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

A floundering Polish shipyard was once the soul of the Solidarity movement that capsized communism.

A vintage penny arcade hidden in the back of a fun fair-themed bar.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

The rotting skeleton of a shoreside fun fair that was destroyed by fire and storms still haunts the Brighton ocean view.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

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

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

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.