Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

A sculpture serving as an homage to Pope John Paul II.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Millions of dollars worth of sculpture decorate this Iowa city center.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

A giant white horse drawn on an English hillside may not have been intended to be a horse at all.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.