This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Time has stopped at the house where Gandhi died.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

The birthplace of Karl Marx is now a museum dedicated to the communist revolutionary's life and work.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

A diminutive memorial marks the site of a successful assassination by a right-wing death squad in America's capital.

These Roman ruins in England’s Lake District are 2,000 years old, but look pretty good for their age.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

A daring D-Day assault by U.S. Army Rangers is commemorated atop the high cliffs of this strategic point.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.