A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

Where artisans use centuries-old techniques to build traditional Arabian ships.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

Unrepaired walls from a 1920 anarchist bomb attack.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

Looking strangely like Rome's Colosseum, this unfinished tower has dominated the skyline for over 100 years.

A plaque installed underwater marks the fall of a royal family from an imagined parallel universe—part of a globe-spanning art project.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

A morbid gateway to an Alaska town prides itself on the hunting history it represents.

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

While not recognized by Guinness, this chocolate waterfall is likely to be the world's largest.