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

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

A fascinating insight into daily life in the Eastern Bloc.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

A reproduction of a giant humanoid "fossil," a hoax buried locally for construction crews to find and gain national attention.

A patch of contaminated land reclaimed as a scrappy sculptural oasis.

Every year, the colorful murals of Montreal get a complete makeover.

This public art pays homage to the baseball legend and civil rights icon and his time in Montreal.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The only example of a Paris Métro sign in use at a subway station outside of the French capital. 

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

Immortalized in bronze, this frazzled student will be glued to his screen for centuries.

The vaulted ceiling is home to a scurry of “squirrelgoyles.”

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

The largest cemetery in Chile is the final resting place for more than 2 million people, from politicians to artists.

Pablo Neruda's custom-built lover's nest was made to remind him of the sea and named after his mistress' hair.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

An early life spent in this "Old Kentucky Home" inspired the writings of North Carolina's most famous novelist.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

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