A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

A commemorative mural in this tiny Ballard park honors the neighborhood's rich Scandinavian ties, particularly with Seattle's Norwegian sister city Bergen.

Always a new use for this old building.

A vinyl-lover's Shangri-La.

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

A charmingly old-fashioned reminder of the historic building's former life.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.