Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The Guardian of Tallinn.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.