A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Yo, Adrian!

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

This series of Baroque passageways in Vienna's cultural center mix old architecture with modern art.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

Cold war icon and onetime "hole" in the iron curtain.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.