San Diego, California
Top Gun ‘Sleazy Bar’
The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.
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San Diego, California
The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.
New Market, Virginia
A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.
Almaty, Kazakhstan
A unique interactive bronze sculpture that captures a real-life viral rescue.
Reno, Nevada
This lucky stone from Ireland is embedded on the corner of a Reno casino to grant luck
Paraíso, Brazil
Ayrton Senna Plaza is a beautifully curated park tucked inside the Ibirapuera Modelódromo in São Paulo, serving as a memorial dedicated to the legendary three-time Formula 1 champion.
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Unique massive sculpture on a mound at a public park just outside of Paris.
Paraíso do Morumbi, Brazil
Formula 1 legend Ayrton Senna is buried under a flowing tree in the middle of São Paulo surrounded by the city he loves.
Paris, France
This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.
Sun City, Arizona
One of America's largest retirement communities has its own history museum
Bucharest, Romania
This train station's platforms were built extremely narrow to deceive a rather arrogant government official
Sacramento, California
The official portrait of California's longest-serving governor has been likened to "spilled ketchup and soy sauce"
Honolulu, Hawaii
One of the only places where you can pay respects to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as gods
Ogden, Utah
This log cabin is all that remains from the first European settlement in Utah
Edmonton, Alberta
A $600,000 pile of stainless steel balls makes for some rather divisive public art.
Luanda, Angola
Angola's “founding father” is buried under a giant concrete obelisk
Oceanside, California
This house made famous by the 1980s movie is now a restaurant filled with Top Gun memorabilia
Barcelona, Spain
An egg dancing on water as a sign of renewal
Markham, Ontario
This giant, unfinished suburban cathedral was meant to be the Canadian seat of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Bristol, England
These stairs, seemingly disappearing into a wall, once tempted some students into petty crime
Odessa, Texas
One of only two exposed meteor impact craters in the United States
Gainesville, Florida
The last place in Florida where wild bison roam
Ann Arbor, Michigan
A model of what was supposed to be Domino's Pizza's colossal, Wrightian headquarters
Belén de Escobar, Argentina
A mysterious, almost perfectly circular floating island gyrating inside a likewise circular lake
Madrid, Spain
The biggest outdoor modern mosaic in Madrid