This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

A maritime museum holding the remains of Blackbeard's pirate ship.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

This life-size replica of the Statue of Liberty's flame is also a tribute to Princess Diana by default.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.