This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

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

The video game-themed street art first popped up in the French city.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

This historic Chinese church was relocated and revived as a museum that preserves and celebrates Chinese art, history, and culture.

These two K-9 memorials commemorate the sister cities of Edinburgh and San Diego.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

The Gaslamp District's oldest bar sports a urinal marked with a golden plaque that was allegedly used by Mick Jagger.

Listen to the sounds of the Earth moving along the Rose Canyon Fault.

The world’s oldest active sailing ship.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

A hat for every occasion can be found in this British Columbia haunt.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

After spending more than a century on the ocean floor, this shipwrecked column is finally resting atop solid ground.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.