This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

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

A Cuban artist reclaimed his impoverished neighborhood as a dreamy folk art kingdom.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

No one knows the meaning behind this giant sculpture of a nude woman with a fork riding a rooster in Havana.

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

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

Architect Le Corbusier built his friend a cubist house to match his impressive collection of cubist art.

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

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

The narrowest street in Paris.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

A beautiful Victorian statue shows France's enduring love of the rhinoceros.