"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Hundreds of prehistoric stones, arranged in perfect lines in a French field.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Pre-Nazi swastikas adorn the sculpted pachyderms flanking this brewhouse portal.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

Metro station with a claim to rock n' roll fame.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These ancient sacred grounds granted amnesty to those who managed to reach them.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

The northernmost point in Denmark is a turbulent sandbar created by two clashing seas.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

Old Danish castle immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.