Seville, Spain
Metropol Parasol
The world's largest wooden structure.
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Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Flagstaff, Arizona
The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.
Hegra, Saudi Arabia
An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.
Amado, Arizona
This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.
Maincy, France
This stunning French estate was so lavish that it landed its original owner in jail for the rest of his life.
Billund, Denmark
An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.
Chicago, Illinois
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Seattle, Washington
Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
Memphis, Tennessee
A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Key Largo, Florida
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.
Woudenberg, Netherlands
A grassy pyramid named after a French battle.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.
Shamrock, Texas
Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.
El Rosario, Mexico
The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.
Boston, Massachusetts
This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.
Amboise, France
The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.
Detroit, Michigan
These enduring murals depicting a distinctly Marxist tribute to capitalism could not even be defeated by McCarthyism.
Blue Earth, Minnesota
This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.