After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

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

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

An ornate plague column – built to celebrate life – claimed the lives of numerous artisans during its construction.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

This water-locked cliff face is covered in hundreds of ancient pictographs.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

This trio of neolithic stone monuments are fabled to be a king and his knights that were petrified by a witch.

A rough granite monument marks the spot where Europeans first caught sight of the San Francisco Bay.

Yemen's "Stone Palace" looks like it was carved right out of the tall stone column on which it is built.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.