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

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

The sculptor was instructed to add “stallion attributes” to the general's bronze mare.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

A popular day's outing in Bovington consists of watching military tank driving practice.

Want to properly offend a king? Sculpt a giant hill figure in chalk of him riding out of town.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

This collection started by a Cornell professor once held more than 600 human brain specimens, including the one that belonged to its founder.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.