This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

A century-old prison in the heart of Vilnius is now a lively bar, dance club, and artist residency.

One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

After several moves across Mexico City, these two statues found a home in Mestizaje Park.

This historic timepiece was a popular meeting place for romantic rendezvous in the 1960s.

This statue stands as a message against the ills of Apartheid.

This statue and its surrounding plaques tells the story of Ko-kwal-alwoot and the kinship between the Samish people and the sea.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

With a crest near 10,000 feet, this treeless fault-block mountain in eastern Oregon provides stunning views and spectacular glacial landforms.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

After public executions took place at this location, attendants would also attend a local horse race.

Murder, searching for gold, and being cut in half—the memorial statue of Daniel O. McCarthy and the Pioneers of '49

The largest statue of this convex, homogeneous object with just one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.

This incongruous small ferry across the Willamette River north of Salem, Oregon has been operating continuously since the 1850s.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

Anza led the first Spanish settlers from Mexico to Monterey, California in the 1770s.

This large artificial waterfall in Washington state was merely an incidental byproduct of a technological megaproject.

An unofficial monument to the late King of Pop sits at the base of a Renaissance composer's statue

One of Madrid's oldest trees, with a long and colorful history, resides in El Retiro Park.

This building displays the scars of the “Dekemvriana,” a dark time in modern Greek history.

A series of modernist, abstract sculptures form a route created as part of the 1968 Olympics' Cultural Olympiad.